Seeds dried and strung for ornament

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Object Number 94-18-70/51051

Display Title Seeds dried and strung for ornament

Descriptions

Inventory Description Seed beads dried and strung, discoidal, wrinkled, on buff fiber cord loop

Classification

Bead

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Fiji

Materials Seed, Vegetable fiber

Dimensions Overall: 6.5 x 9.6 x 1 cm (2 9/16 x 3 3/4 x 3/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 51051

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2004.1.465	Beads, cut grey seeds, conical, some strung on fiber	Bead	Oceania
2003.1.3015	Ornaments, hollow seeds, some strung on vegetable fiber	Ornament
39-39-50/3579	Child's wristlet, 4 loops of shiny grey seeds (chuli)	Bead	Uganda
08-25-50/73686	Bracelets, black seeds strung on twisted vegetable fber cord	Bracelet	Kenya
2003.1.2419	Beads, round black seeds on knotted fiber, some peeling, red interior	Bead
2006.10.46.4	Beads, brown/gray seeds strung on plastic cord; broken	Seed Adornment	Thailand
46-77-30/5978	Halves of seeds strung as beads	Seed	Trujillo
99-1-70/52237	Ornament of coix seeds	Bracelet	Papua New Guinea
30-61-70/D3681	Ornament for the neck, 3 rows of seed beads strung on fiber	Necklace	Papua New Guinea
2006.10.46.3	String of small white/gray seeds; three separated loose seeds	Adornment Seed	Thailand
2001.29.592	//Ku≠tera sitting with her few possessions, including a sewn leather bag, roasted melon seeds in a dried melon, digging stick, fire paddle, sieve, and a shoulder bag		/Ai Ha !O Pan
2001.29.20775	//Ku≠tera sitting with her few possessions, including a sewn leather bag, roasted melon seeds in a dried melon, digging stick, fire paddle, sieve, and a shoulder bag		/Ai Ha !O Pan

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