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    • Dog Tooth Necklace

    • Dog Tooth Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Necklace made of dog teeth, glass imitation dog teeth, and nassa shells. Dog teeth were sometimes used as trade goods.
    • Ethiopia Necklace

    • Ethiopia Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A necklace of 10 silver Coptic crosses and various black and white trade beads from Ethiopia. Coptic is the Christian religion of the area.
    • Face Bead

    • Face Bead

    • Allen, Jamey

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • A large polymer clay bead (40mm X 31mm) showing 5 rows of male and female faces based on ancient samples found in Syrian and Egyptian cultures. The center row of faces is largest and shows the most detail.
    • Fashion Accessories

    • Fashion Accessories

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Armband;earrings

    • Top: A pectoral ornament or part of a headdress. The center piece is oval with a tree-of-life motif and metal chain dangles with diamond shaped drops. Each side piece is 5 inches of metal mesh with 3 embossed octagon shaped medalions. Along the...
    • FLower Money

    • FLower Money

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact - Exchange Medium - Coin

    • A 3mm thick round piece of silver with an embossed flower design, used both as a pendant and as a medium of exchange. Also called Willow Leaf Money, it was made and used in Burma, 1600 - 1800. Flower money was produced in the Shan provinces along...
    • Folded Bead

    • Folded Bead

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Bead

    • Folded glass beads lilke this are specific to the Islamic Period 622 - 1400. The glass is actually folded over itself to form this type of bead. Usually you can see the fold line.
    • Folded Glass Bead

    • Folded Glass Bead

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • Folded glass beads like this are specific to the Islamic Period, 622 to 1400. The glass is actually folded over itself to form this type of bead. Usually you can see the fold line.
    • Glass Rods

    • Glass Rods

    • Heron Glass

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Cane

    • Canes and cane slices from glass rods used to make beads. These canes were made by Mary Mullany and Ralph Mossman of Heron Glass in early 1994. The flower-like motifs shown in the slices are called "millefiori" which is Italian for 1000 flowers.
    • Glass Sherds

    • Glass Sherds

    • Ancient Egypt

    • Unclassifiable Artifact - Artifact Remnant - Sherd

    • A variety of glass sherds from ancient Egypt during the Roman period dating from 63BC to 14AD. Glassmaking occurred as early as 2340 BC in Mesopotamia. These are fragments of vessels made in the millefiori technique that was devised to imitate the...
    • Guatemala Necklace

    • Guatemala Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Coral, glass and metal beads forming a necklace with a large silver crucifix pendant. The necklace uses several coins and silver crosses. Small metal pieces in shapes of limbs (arms, legs, etc.) and body parts (eyes) are called "milagros" which...
    • Head Ornament

    • Head Ornament

    • Ifugao Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Hat

    • A small round fiber hat with a pair of Mother-of-Pearl drop earrings attached. This hat is worn by bachelors and sits to the back of the head, tying under the chin. Married men wear a hat with no decoration.
    • Head Pendant Necklace

    • Head Pendant Necklace

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • A necklace made of netted glass seed beads supporting a bronze pendant with four heads. Two of the heads have mithan horns while the heads on either side have earrings with red wool tassles. Mithan are wild cattle tended by the Naga People....
    • Hoof Necklace

    • Hoof Necklace

    • Fox Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Nineteenth Century hoof and glass bead necklace obtained from the Fox Tribe of Toma, Iowa. The beads date from the 1890's while the dyed carved hooves are thought to be from the 1870's. Beads are 3.5mm diameter and the hooves are 5mm thick and...
    • Indo-Pacific Necklace

    • Indo-Pacific Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Old Indo-Pacific glass beads and gold beads strung by a contemorary artist. Beads date to 1200 AD. Indo-Pacific beads are small monochrome glass beads made by the LADA technique. They were first made in India in 300 BC and subsequently in Sri...
    • Kond Brass Necklace

    • Kond Brass Necklace

    • Kond Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • It is a collection of antique brass round elements on string.
    • Kond Necklace

    • Kond Necklace

    • Kond Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • A multi-strand necklace of red "whitehearts" alternating with sections of white glass beads. Each section is divided by 2 large brass bicone beads. Necklace is 42 in. long and 2 in. thick. "Whitehearts" are red glass beads with a white glass...
    • Konyak Necklace

    • Konyak Necklace

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • This is a multi-strand necklace of small glass seed beads in red, orange, and navy blue. Strands meet at knotted fiber on each side and 2 Indian coins are used as the closure. This necklace was worn by Konyak people, one of the many Naga tribes. ...
    • Ladakh Anklet

    • Ladakh Anklet

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Personal Gear - Anklet

    • Oblate graduated turquoise blue glass beads with alternating brass bells in the central area strung on cotton string. A small brass bell is used as a clasp.
    • Metal Necklace

    • Metal Necklace

    • Dan Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A necklace made up of 30 brass decorated teeth and old Venetian glass millefiori beads. The long brass pieces represent leopard teeth and the short brass teeth represent crocodile teeth.
    • Mithan Pendant

    • Mithan Pendant

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Pendant

    • A carved bone pendant made from a Mithan skull with small bundles of black hair attached at the base. Faces and concentric circles are carved in the bone. Mithan is the type of cattle raised by the Naga People and a Mithan face is the official Seal...

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