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necklace

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  • Other Name

    Scoria Lei

    lei

  • Description

    lei, necklace consists of stacked up scoria beads, onto four steel cables that flow into four strands of small silver beads.

    Where the silver beads and the scoria connect, is a star stamped silver round, fixing them together, at the apex of the neck are the same silver rounds but individual for each stand.

    Each of the scoria beads has been drilled in the centre and a silver pin with a rounded head is threaded through and coiled at the other end.

    W.F is stamped on the side of one of the silver rounds.

  • Place
    Ngataringa Bay/Devonport/North Shore City/Auckland/New Zealand
  • Accession Number
    1991.307
  • Other Id

    JY23 (jewellery)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC

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  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace, 1991.307, JY23, © Auckland Museum CC BY NC
  • necklace
  • necklace, detail
  • necklace, detail

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