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Beaded ornament, umgingqo
Artist:
North Nguni
Date: 1895-1906
Medium: glass beads, fabric, thread
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Ann E. Catlin
Object number: 1937.52.137
DescriptionBeaded rope: alternating bands (7mm width) of 4 rows of opaque light blue and translucent red/white core beads. In center of red bands on 2 strands there are large (5 mm in diam) vaseline yellow beads (orginally 29). After 22nd band from one end, there is one row of white beads. At each end, there are 2 rows of pink beads each with a white bead, 1 conical brass button, 2 (5mm0 red/white core beads. One end has a loop made of fiber strings. One end has a plain brass button.
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