Necklace

Museum number:
5-15901
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015901
Alternate number:
10 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4660
Description:
necklace, beaded, with conical shaped beaded plaque (?) suspended; multiple strands of multicolored seed and tubular glass beads, bunched together 5.0 cm., and separated by 12 oval larger blue beads and white beads; pendant, with multicolored seed beads stitched on conical shaped cloth backing in geometric designs; L. (incl pendant) 74.0 cm.
Donor:
Diane Wedner and Ron Ziskin
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Diane Wedner and Ron Ziskin
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 8, 1994
Context of use:
beaded divination necklace for 'Ifa' priest
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 74 centimeters
Comment:
see xerographic color reproduction in acc envelope
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Necklace, accession number 5-15901, described as necklace, beaded, with conical shaped beaded plaque (?) suspended; multiple strands of multicolored seed and tubular glass beads, bunched together 5.0 cm., and separated by 12 oval larger blue beads and white beads; pendant, with multicolored seed beads stitched on conical shaped cloth backing in geometric designs; L. (incl pendant) 74.0 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Necklace, accession number 5-15901, described as necklace, beaded, with conical shaped beaded plaque (?) suspended; multiple strands of multicolored seed and tubular glass beads, bunched together 5.0 cm., and separated by 12 oval larger blue beads and white beads; pendant, with multicolored seed beads stitched on conical shaped cloth backing in geometric designs; L. (incl pendant) 74.0 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 5-15901, described as necklace, beaded, with conical shaped beaded plaque (?) suspended; multiple strands of multicolored seed and tubular glass beads, bunched together 5.0 cm., and separated by 12 oval larger blue beads and white beads; pendant, with multicolored seed beads stitched on conical shaped cloth backing in geometric designs; L. (incl pendant) 74.0 cm.

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