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Beaded chest ornament
Artist:
Zulu artist
Date: 1905
Medium: Glass beads, fiber, brass buttons
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Bequest of Rev. Lewis Grout
Object number: 1905.1.25
Description2 flat bands attached at one end and fastened at the other with 2 brass buttons and loop fastener. Each band has opaque white matrix with 5 identical design motifs. At each end each band has 2 vertical rows of black beads with a blue row inbetween. Beads are 4 mm in diam. (Trim on edges has smaller beads) Light royal blue, black, Cornaline d'Alleppo, top and bottom edges in double rows of red Cornaline d'Alleppo on fiber.
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