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Object Name2 Strands of Beads
Made FromGlass
Date1850-1910
Place MadeWest Africa
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number73.3.358
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionGrayish-white, blue, green, red glass; wound. (A) Seventy beads - African copies of Rosettas - grayish-white beads; some with blue longitudinal stripes, some with reddish-brown longitudinal stripes, some with blue green and red longitudinal stripes; three dark blue beads with white longitudinal stripes; (B) thirty-six beads - twenty-seven African copies of Rosettas - twenty-seven beads; grayish-white with red and blue longitudinal stripes; nine cylindrical beads; opaque red vulganite (plastic).
Provenance
Source H. Alastair Lamb - 1973