Necklace

Museum number:
2-59091
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3163
Description:
2 strands of glass beads imitating blue matrix turquoise separated by real white shell beads; 2 pendant loops of glass blue "turquoise" with red glass "coral" beads at top of each loop. On cotton string.
Donor:
Mrs. Oreo Curtiss
Collection place:
Hubbell Trading Post, Apache County, Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
; Czechoslovakia
Production place:
Czechoslovakia (historical political entity)
Culture or time period:
Czechoslovakian and Southwestern Native American
Collector:
Stanford Rowe
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Context of use:
Made for the Southwest Indian trade.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 66 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-59091, described as 2 strands of glass beads imitating blue matrix turquoise separated by real white shell beads; 2 pendant loops of glass blue "turquoise" with red glass "coral" beads at top of each loop. On cotton string.

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