A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland / The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas

by Meg Gehrts

Beadmaking: A Native Industry discovered by the Author

1. Ordinary palm nuts

2. Are cracked on a stone

3. The cracked shells are smoothed with water between two stones

4. Holes are drilled in the cracked and smoothed pieces

5. Then strung together

6. And the whole string made round and smoothed with the help of a stone and mud and water

7. The bead belt is put on over the head

8. And worn as a hip ornament by the women