Necklace of plant segments, multicolored glass beads, leather pendant with cowry shells

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Object Number 2020.3.22

Display Title Necklace of plant segments, multicolored glass beads, leather pendant with cowry shells

Descriptions

Inventory Description Necklace, tubular plant segments interspersed with red and orange glass beads, rectangular pendant of three rows of cowrie shells, surrounded with orange and blue beads, backed on leather, extensions of beads, plant segments and cowrie shells

Classification

Necklace

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Hadza

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Tanzania

Materials Leather , Plant fiber , Glass beads , Shells , Metal

Dimensions Overall: 39.5 × 3.6 × 0.7 cm (15 9/16 × 1 7/16 × 1/4 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2020.3.22

Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

Provenance

Collector Frank W. Marlowe

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2020.3.19	Necklace of alternating dark and light plant segments on plant fiber cord	Necklace	Tanzania
2020.3.20	Necklace of light plant segments alternating with prickly pods(?)	Necklace	Tanzania
2020.3.34	Necklace of four strands of plant segments	Necklace	Tanzania
2020.3.33	Necklace of light colored plant segments separated by red and chartreuse beads	Necklace	Tanzania
2020.3.27	Necklace of plant segments and small prickly pods(?)	Necklace	Tanzania

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