Man's apron of cloth decorated with a dense covering of rows of cowrie shells. In the lower panel these are set leghtwatys horizontally in regular rows; in the upper part there are three rows where they are placed vertically, below a section where thirteen lines of four shells placed vertically. The lower part of the apron is more or less rectangular, while in the upper part the sides slope inwards. Edges of the lower part bound with red cord; upper part edges bound with string..
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