Context (Found together / assemblage)
1953.567 B.1-6 were previously seen strung together on a modern piece of string. They have been removed from this string and each given their own record.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card: 'Lake Guatavita or thereabouts.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1953.567 A-C: 'Three strings of beads. A) Amber. B) Chloritic schist & 1 of jade; C) Carnelian.'
Event Date 1953
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1953.567 B[.1-6]: 'String of beads'
Event Date 1953
Author: maa

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2022.5322 | Assessment Only
Event Date 6/6/2022
Author: Kirstie French

Description (Physical description)
A single, irregularly shaped blue-green stone bead, possible jadeite.
Event Date 30/8/2022
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Loan (Analysis)
Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, 08/09/2022 to 15/09/2022, Dark Materials: Carbonaceous pre-Colonial carvings from the Circum-Caribbean
Event Date 8/9/2022
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
5 barrel shaped green chloritic schist beads of different sizes. Each with signs of discolouration. Small fragments missing from two beads.
Event Date 27/1/2025
Author: Chloe Pearce