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Beaded ornament
Artist:
North Nguni
Date: 1895-1906
Medium: glass trade beads, grass, brass buttons, thread
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Ann E. Catlin
Object number: 1937.52.203
DescriptionBraided band of grass decorated with beads, brass buttons and twisted twine. At each end 3 conical brass buttons. At one end 4 rows of large (6 mm) translucent red/white core beads with sky blue and black borders. Then pattern of 5 raised lines made of twine, followed by 3 brass buttons at one end, (other possibly missing). Two sections of 5 double rows of wide white centers bordered by red beads topped with vaseline yellow or sky blue beads. 12 brass buttons in the center divided by line of raised twine. All the beads are approximately 3-4 mm.
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