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Beaded ornament, umgingqo
Artist:
North Nguni
Date: 1895-1906
Medium: glass beads, brass buttons, textile
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Ann E. Catlin
Object number: 1937.52.145
DescriptionBeaded rope: 12 bands of color measuring approximately 3 cm each. The colors are (from the brass bead), vaseline yellow, blue-green, white, red, blue-green, vaseline yellow, red, blue-green, white, red, blue-green, vaseline yellow. Each separated by 2 rows of black. At each end there are rows of blue-green beads, three rows on the end with the brass button, and two rows on the other. One the end with 2 rows of blue-green is a strand with 2 vaseline yellow beads, one white, two sky blue, and two at the end of the band with the brass button between the blue-green and the black bands.
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