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Start Over Object name Chest ornament Collector Joy Hilden
Hearst Museum object titled Chest ornament, accession number 9-23810, described as A neck and chest ornament, naid sar, of leather made of a pair of braided and twined tassels with lead bead ornaments. A string of glass and plastic beads is attached to both pieces of the pair at center chest. Each long tasseled ornament is made of two ropes, braided around a core, folded into a loop at the top end. The ropes are bound together tightly below the loop with circles of twining and lead beads, with beaded and tasseled strings hanging from that. Each of the ropes is bound similarly at midpoint, with white glass beads circling those bindings and more tassels at the ends. The bottom ends are decorated the same way as the middle ones. The ropes are fastened together loosely at the two decorative points with string. The two ropes are fastened together through the top loops with a 10" circle of blue electrical cord. Braiding and twining of leather strips circa 1/16 inch wide. Twining 11-12 EPI. Lead, plastic and glass beads, tassels.
Hearst Museum object titled Chest ornament, accession number 9-23813, described as A neck and chest ornament of leather, made of a pair of braided and twined tasseled ropes with lead and bead ornaments. Each long tasseled ornament is made of two ropes, braided around a cloth core, and folded in half to create loops with circlets of twining and lead beads, with leaded and tasseled string hanging from those. From here the ropes divide into twos, with twined and lead-beaded circlets on the four ropes at midpoint and lower end. Circlets of white glass beads decorate the tops and tassels hang from their ends. Each pair of ropes is fastened with string at the circlets, and at the tops of each of the middle and end circlets two sets of colored beads 9" long extends across the chest to corresponding tassel. The two decorated ropes are attached at the top loops by nylon net 12" long. Twining too closely covered by lead beads to determine thread count.

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