Context (Acquisition Details)
Mrs. Barbara Spalding and her husband Michael worked as English teachers in Taiz, Yemen, from 1997-98 during which time she collected silver and talked to the men in the market silver shops.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Silver necklace-chain with intricate silver, cage-like beads from which dangle jingles, alternating with yellow ?amber beads. The beads terminate at each end in a cone-shaped bead. The necklace fastens with a hook and eye attached to lengths of silver chain.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
The accretions found on pieces in this collection, in addition to the appearance of the silver, suggest to Anita Herle that the metal used is a mixture of silver and other metals, possibly among them copper.
Event Date 30/11/2004
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Description (Physical description)
Necklace, made of silver chain fasthening with a hook and eye and terminating in a conical silver bead on each end of the chain. The beads along the chain alternate in the following pattern: one silver metal cage like bead from which hangs a small silver ball, one ?amber bead, and one 'tut' bead made up of smaller grains of silver soldered together.
Event Date 12/6/2023
Author: Stephanie Chinneck