Chapter III · Regalia & Endurance
Grassfields Field Survey · 2024
Mbekang
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The takeaway
Beads outlast the courts
that
commission
them.
Surviving beadwork by commission decade
Objects catalogued · n = 1,284
300
225
150
75
0
1890s
41
1910s
68
1930s
112
1950s
89
1970s
57
1990s
73
2010s
104
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