#4986 Ceremonial Skirt Kirdi Beaded Cache Sex Pikuran Cameroon

depicting lines of diamond shapes 

17.5" w by 1/2 d by 7.5" h

can be hanged on the wall or framed or make a pillow etc...

 Among some Cameroon groups, women simply wore pubic aprons also known as 'caches sexes’ in various writings (literally - ‘to hide the sex’) until approximately 1961, when governmental restrictions required women to be fully clothed. However the tradition continues in a number of ornate beaded forms worn today.

Living in the area of the Mandara mountains, Matakam women of northern Cameroon wore pubic aprons made of small iron strips covering the sex and held in place by a belt of fiber.