necklace

Beaded necklace. Part of set of 5, shortest in set. Band formed of 5 wires threaded with brightly coloured beads and fastened together with regularly spaced white plastic bands. Top 4 wires threaded mainly with alternating large black and red beads. 5th wire made of yellow beads. Jagged final band of light blue, white and red beads forming small triangles. Silver metal chain finished with silver disks suspended from the tip of each triangle. Centre of necklace has a white pearlescent button. Both ends of band reinforced with plastic tabs wired to underside.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
HC.2020.5.5
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
beads (neck ornaments); wire; plastic
CATEGORY
Education Handling Collection: Anthropology
LOCATION
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