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beads

human history
  • Other Name

    mummy beads (alternative)

  • Description

    beads. Series of blue faience beads. There is a blue faience ushabti figure attached to the string. The beads may be from a funerary shroud. Their association is probably modern. There are 157 tubular bead and 43 ring beads.

  • Place
  • Accession Date
    [1877]
  • Other Id

    11163 (ethnology)

  • Department
beads / 11163 / © Auckland Museum CC BY

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