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Beaded ornament
Artist:
North Nguni
Date: 1895-1906
Medium: glass trade beads, vegetable fiber
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Ann E. Catlin
Object number: 1937.52.181
DescriptionBeaded tab with lacework beaded band. Band has 2 rows of traslucent red/white core beads sewn onto cord with a royal blue lacework beneath with 1 mauve seed bead replacing 1 blue bead. At both ends there are two mauve beads and one blue bead, then string with blue bead at one end. Ends knotted. The top of tab has a border of 2 rows of blue beads sewn onto the cord with 1 single white bead on 1 end, then string with blue beads sewn onto the cord with 1 single white bead on 1 end, then 1 row of red openwork. The bottom border of the tab is a single row of large (3 mm) red beads. Extending from background of mauve beads with 2 diagonal stripes from 2 corners, which almost meet in the middle. At each lower corner there is a blue diagonal stripe.
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