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    • Guatemala Necklace

    • Guatemala Necklace

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    • 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...
    • "Balangandas" Necklace

    • "Balangandas" Necklace

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    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A cast silver metal frame with two birds on a vine and dangles of hollow fruit, gourds and a wooden hand. This necklace is known as "balangandas" - originally a chain of amulets or charms (teeth, bells, horn, shell, etc.) worn by slaves as...
    • Belt

    • Belt

    • Jivaro Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Personal Gear - Belt

    • Red, yellow, blue and white striped cloth with fringes of fiber with red and black beads, Job's Tears, large pieces of shell and brown buckeye seed pods. The red and black seeds are poisonous. From catalog "Seashells: The First Ornament:" TBM...
    • Straw Necklace

    • Straw Necklace

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    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A whimsical contemporary woven straw necklace consisting of a central purple grape cluster pendant with green leaves flaked by various fruit on each side. The rest of the necklace is mixed woven straw beads in bright, cheerful colors.
    • "Nueva Cadiz" Beads

    • "Nueva Cadiz" Beads

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    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • Six "Nueva Cadiz" beads from Chan Chan, Peru, thought to date from the 15th-16th centuries. These are distinctive square tubular blue glass beads, some twisted, originally found only in South America. They get their name from Nueva Cadiz,...
    • Peruvian Necklace

    • Peruvian Necklace

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    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Three "Nueva Cadiz" necklaces. Left: Mixture of mixed glass Nueva Cadiz beads, shell tubes and glass chevrons with a spindle whorl pendant. Center: A necklace of 28 blue glass Nueva Cadiz beads with a drop pendant. The pendant consists of a...
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Amulet necklace

    • Amulet necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment -Necklace

    • A necklace of assorted silver amulets, coins, bracteats, beads and stones strung on twisted black cords with a larger diamond shaped silver prayer box at the center. Two of the amulets are stylized "Hands of Fatima" symbols. Amulets are thought...
    • Crown and Beaded Bottle

    • Crown and Beaded Bottle

    • Yoruba Tribe

    • Communication Artifact - Personal Symbol - Crown

    • The crown on the right is a cone-shaped hat covered with glass seed beads. Beaded face motifs are raised elements in orange and yellow. A beaded bird with dangling fringe sits on the point of the crown. Along the base of the crown is a beaded...
    • Artist Bead Necklace

    • Artist Bead Necklace

    • Smircich, James

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Contempory glass bead necklace in red, white and black made in 1993. James is a founding member of the ISGB (International Society of Glass Bead Makers) and an internationally celebrated teacher of glass bead making.
    • Czech Glass Bead Strand

    • Czech Glass Bead Strand

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    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Beads

    • A strand of 23 molded Czech glass melon beads in white, red, light blue and one yellow. They were probably made to imitate Indian agate beads.
    • African Trade Beads

    • African Trade Beads

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    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Bead

    • Nine strands of African Trade Beads. African Trade Beads are usually made in Venice, some as early as 1600. They were traded for goods and services in Africa and then traded around the world until they eventually became known as African Trade...
    • 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. ...
    • Naga Ao Necklace

    • Naga Ao Necklace

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • A Naga tribal necklace made of light blue wound glass beads, 2 large cylindrical pieces of white chank shell, black and white spotted glass beads and carnelian ovals alternating with long-stemed brass bells. Square chank shell pieces used for...
    • Naga Earrings

    • Naga Earrings

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Earrings

    • Two large chank shell disks with red tassles and beads at the top of each tassle. Woven multicolor beadwork connects the two disks. This earring band is a special class of earring suite connected by beadwork and worn so the chank shells go over...
    • 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....
    • Naga Amulet Necklace

    • Naga Amulet Necklace

    • Naga Tribe

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Nine metal pendants strung with 74 glass and shell beads ending with a square chank shell closure. Orange glass beads and chank shell beads form a backdrop for 9 brass and bronze amulet pendants. The amulets have raised circular designs and show...
    • Sherpa Coral Necklace

    • Sherpa Coral Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • A necklace of 46 red glass Czech beads made to imitate coral. It is called Sherpa Coral because it is favored by the Sherpa People of Nepal.
    • Pre-Columbian Necklace

    • Pre-Columbian Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifacts - Adornment - Necklace

    • Five flat rectangular shell pieces with a hole in each corner of each rectangle (4 holes per shell), all strung together with shell heishi discs at both top and bottom. The top row continues around the neck. The shell dates to the Tairona Culture...

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