Accession No
Z 29609 F
Description
String of coral, orange, and brown coloured shell beads of different sizes. Beads are strung with the smallest beads all together and then alternating barrel beads with disc-shaped beads.
Place
Americas; South America; Peru
Period
?Pre-Hispanic/Pre-Columbian
Source
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum [donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 29609 F
Cultural Affliation
Material
Shell
Local Term
Measurements
388mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Original description for Z 29609[A-H]: 'Beads; also one wooden ?whistle. One strand large beads of stone, pottery, shell and electron. Three strands small black cylindrical ?bone or shell beads with interspersed coloured ones. One has a bird-like head as centrepiece. Two strands reddish ?bone beads, one has two carved mother-of-pearl pendants with zigzag edges. Two plaited string necklets with pear-shaped copper amulet.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
String of coral, orange, and brown coloured shell beads of different sizes. Beads are strung with the smallest beads all together and then alternating barrel beads with disc-shaped beads.
Event Date 13/12/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller
FM:322541
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