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Object Number
32-61-50/B5163
Display Title
Necklet with medicine container
Descriptions
Object Description
Charm necklace with glass and wood beads and skin (?) pouch. A single strand of red beads is separated with pieces of light and dark wood and blue and white beads. A string of white beads, attached to the bottom of the necklace with black thread, ends in a skin (?) pouch tied with string. Rows of red and white beads decorate the bundle.
The Peabody number is written on the fourth wooden piece up from the bundle.
Inventory Description
Necklace, glass seed beads, pieces of wood, thread/hide bundle on 2nd strand
Classification
- Necklace
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Merina
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Madagascar
Materials
Wood, Glass, Hide, Cotton thread
Dimensions
Overall: 56.5 x 6 x 2 cm (22 1/4 x 2 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
32-61-50/B\ 5163
Provenance
Collector
Ralph Linton
Intermediary
Field Museum of Natural History
(1932)
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