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