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bead work

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  • Common Name
    Adornment
  • Description

    Bead work

    Zulu beadwork. Made from thread and glass beads. 6 pieces of jewellery and decorative work

    .1 is a rectangular panel made up of small rectangles of alternating coloured beads creating a larger diamond pattern. The colours include white, black, navy blue, and green. The short ends of the rectangle have large metal safety pins slotting through the bead work

    .2 is a necklace made from a rectangle panel of bead work with 3 strings of bead wrapping around each other at each end creating the chain of the necklace. The clasp is made of a ball and eye of beads. The panel of bead work is a white bead background with connecting cross shapes made of red, orange, yellow, green, and blue beads, with black bead outlines

    .3 is a bracelet or anklet made of a rectangle panel of bead work. The panel is made up of coloured beads creating a geometric pattern in yellow, red, light blue,white, black, and green. Attached to the short ends of the panel are strings of beads in green and red that are pulled together with a string creating the tie for the bracelet

    .4 is a bracelet or anklet made of a rectangle panel of bead work. The panel is made up of beads grouped in colours creating large diamond shapes around each other. The beads are in green, yellow, navy, light blue, and white. Attached to the short ends of the panel are strings of beads in green, yellow, and white that are pulled together with a string creating the tie for the bracelet

    .5 is a small child sized necklace with a square panel of bead work as the pendant. The panel is a red background with a diamond at at the centre in green, orange, black, and white. The necklace is made of white beads; the fastening is a metal hook and eye

    .6 is a long panel of bead work. The base colour is orange beads, with many small triangles in white and blue, blue accents along edge

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1993.22
  • Accession Date
    19 Jan 1993
  • Other Id

    54448 (ethnology)

  • Department
beadwork

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