Waist Belt

Beaded waist belt woven with sisal fibre and have attractive triangular designs. From it hangs strings of beads about 18" long with cents coins on the end which acts as a sort of bead skirt. Made by newly married women and worn by them to look beautiful when dancing traditional dances. Was never sold in the markets but was exchanged for goats or uncooked food when a family becomes a christian and no longer wears them.