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Object Number 29-43-50/B4727
Display Title Necklace with snuff pendant
Descriptions
Object Description Necklace with spool pendant. Beaded necklace with spool pendant. The object is composed of three single strands of red, black, jade and pink colored beads. A spool shaped pendant lined with red, black and pink beads decorate outer surface hand from the beaded chain. Identifying numbers: Two Peabody Museum catalogue numbers have been applied to the sides of the spooled-shaped paendant in black ink.
Inventory Description Necklace, 3 strand glass bead, bead wrapped bamboo tube pendant, plugged
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bantu speaking peoples
  • Zulu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / South Africa
Dimensions Overall: 34 x 5 x 3 cm (13 3/8 x 1 15/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object B-4727
Provenance
Collector James Sturgis Pray (1929)
Donor Benjamin S. Pray (1929)

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