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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