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 large, silver, filigree-detailed beads, alternating with large stone beads in various shades of red. Each end culminates in a cone-shaped bead. The beads are threaded on nylon filament. 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. The chain of the necklace consists of nine stone beads, eight of equal size with the middle bead larger. Between each stone bead is a silver spherical bead or ‘douggeh’. The chain terminates with a conical silver bead on each end, and before these cones and on either side of the larger middle stone is a bead of granulated silver or ’tut’.
Event Date 12/6/2023
Author: Stephanie Chinneck