Beaded loin cloth/cache sex; vertical bands of checkerboard rectangles�black and yellow, blue and yellow, light blue and red, red and white, blue and white, etc; seed beads strung on cotton warp elements and secured by a cotton weft(placed every two rows; warp elements folded over two lengths of cotton �string� to start the weaving�continuous tie ends extend beyond the beading; tie end lengths plied together and knotted at the end; groups of five warp ends gathered and passed through two larger glass beads; two groups of warp ends extending beyond the larger glass beads knotted and plied together; these plied ends passed through a cowrie shell (with its top cut off) and knotted.