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Object Number
41-54-50/5449
Display Title
Necklace of turquoise-colored glass beads and gazelles' knuckles
Descriptions
Object Description
Necklace - green glass beads and basal phalanges (from grant's gazelle).
Necklace with glass turqouise beads and painted bone.
The object is a necklace composed of a single strand of turqoise-colored glass beads interspersed with red painted or pigmented gazelle knuckles.
Identifying numbers:
A Peabody Museum number appears on a gazelle bone in black ink.
Inventory Description
Necklace, round turquoise-colored glass beads, animal bones with red pigment
Classification
- Necklace
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Additional Geographic Terms
Eastern area
Materials
Bone, Glass, Thread, Pigment, Bead
Dimensions
Overall: 51 x 2.5 x 1.6 cm (20 1/16 x 1 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
41-54-50/5449
Provenance
Collector
Boston Museum
Donor
Mrs. Henry C. Grant
(1941)
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