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, spherical beads alternating with groups of five red stone disc-shaped beads. Each end terminates in a cone-shaped silver 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 fastening with a hook and eye. The two ends of the chain terminate in conical silver beads, decorated with wire-work. The rest of the chain consisting of seven sets of five cylindrical red stone beads separated by one plain spherical silver bead. Strung on nylon filament.
Event Date 12/6/2023
Author: Stephanie Chinneck