Necklace

Museum number:
5-13280
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050013280
Accession number:
Acc.3321
Description:
Necklace., Kenya, Masai. 5-13280, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.2 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass beads; tin; leather; wire Description: Necklace; rounded "choker" type necklace of lt. blue, red and white glass "seed" beads over leather with wire closure; pendant from chocker is oval ornament of lather faces with red and yellow beads from which hand 4 strands of varicolord and varishaped beads with round tin ornaments at base; total l. 49.5 cm.
Donor:
Harold B. Van Maren and Mrs. Harold B. Van Maren
Collection place:
Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Kenya; Masai
Culture or time period:
Maasai people
Collector:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 5-13280, described as Necklace., Kenya, Masai. 5-13280, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.2 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass beads; tin; leather; wire Description: Necklace; rounded "choker" type necklace of lt. blue, red and white glass "seed" beads over leather with wire closure; pendant from chocker is oval ornament of lather faces with red and yellow beads from which hand 4 strands of varicolord and varishaped beads with round tin ornaments at base; total l. 49.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 5-13280, described as Necklace., Kenya, Masai. 5-13280, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.2 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass beads; tin; leather; wire Description: Necklace; rounded "choker" type necklace of lt. blue, red and white glass "seed" beads over leather with wire closure; pendant from chocker is oval ornament of lather faces with red and yellow beads from which hand 4 strands of varicolord and varishaped beads with round tin ornaments at base; total l. 49.5 cm.

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