Beaded ornament
Artist:
North Nguni
Date: 1895-1906
Medium: glass trade beads, sinew, vegetable fiber
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Ann E. Catlin
Object number: 1937.52.189
DescriptionBeaded tab on beaded strands. Beaded tab has a top border of a double row of black beads sewn onto a cord with a red and white bead at each end. Bottom border has a half border of blue, then the other half is translucent red/white core and then an area of vaseline yellow with a single royal blue bead at one corner. The tab has a pattern of 6 triangular sections with blue and red horizontal stripes that form half rows of each red and blue. There are 3 sections of white beads and 3 sections of mauve beads. The double row of strands has 2 large sections of white, separated by a section of vaseline yellow, red, black, sky blue. There are two sections of red, vaseline yellow, sky blue, black and clear or transparent beads. The string ends with a single red and white bead.