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Necklace of plant segments wih bead spacers, pendant of coiled metal with beads and black pods(?)
Necklace of plant segments wih bead spacers, pendant of coiled metal with beads and black pods(?)
Object Number 2020.3.21
Display Title Necklace of plant segments wih bead spacers, pendant of coiled metal with beads and black pods(?)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace string of dark and light tubular plant segments, separated with red and blue glass beads, circular pendant of metal coil center, surrounded with yellow and blue glass beads, three perforated plant pods with bead and metal chain extensions
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Materials Seed pod? , Plant fiber , Metal , Glass beads
Dimensions Overall: 38 × 8.5 × 2.1 cm (14 15/16 × 3 3/8 × 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2020.3.21
Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania
Provenance
Collector Frank W. Marlowe

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