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Beaded ornament
Artist:
North Nguni
Date: 1895-1906
Medium: glass beads, vegetable fiber
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Ann E. Catlin
Object number: 1937.52.157
DescriptionBeaded tab on beaded band. Tab has a top border of 2 rows of royal blue sewn onto a vegetable fiber cord. Bottom border has a row of translucent red/white core beads and a row of vaseline yellow beads with a single blue (2 mm) bead and a cluster of red and white beads at each corner. The pattern of the tab is a white backgound with a double verticle row of black with 8, 4-bead squares along the black stripe. The side is edged with 2 rows of translucent red. The band has a border of 2 royal blue* and 1 row of larger (4 mm) vaseline yellow row. There are 8 red beads and 1 mauve bead sewn throughout the blue double row border. A brass button with 3 vaseline yellow beads are at one end. A loop seems to be missing from the other end *rows sewn onto the cord, then 2 rows of white, 1 row of red.
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