From card: "Alternating panels of open beadwork and cowrie shells, with leather fringe. "Little leather aprons without beadwork, but with shells, are in wide use in the Sudan. But all examples of those with only beadwork and shells in the Museum (Khartoum) were from BEJA, the area around SUAKIN (19[degree symbol]N, 37[degree symbol]E), on the Red Sea, where are the ... [Beja people]. They may be from elsewhere too, not in the Sudan." M. Cavendish, S. Nur, University of Khartoum, Sudan. 9/8/1965".
