53 Beads

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Object Name: 
53 Beads
Place Made: 
Africa
Accession Number: 
73.3.58
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 3.1 cm, D: 3.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1900-1973
Primary Description: 
Green, blue, brown glass; Adiagba - a necklace, (52 small beads; one large bead) with the large bead intended to form the central point; each bead is ground so as to form a circular shape. Decorated mainly with one or two longitudinal stripes of green and blue. The large bead has longitudinal stripes of green and brown.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Lamb, Alastair, Former Collection
1973
Category: 
Beads
Color: 
Green, blue, brown
blue
green

Publications (1)

Krobo Powder-Glass Beads (1976-04) illustrated, pp. 36-37, top right, fig. 16; BIB# AI14479