Beaded necklace for young Zulu women, 'Love Letter

The necklace consists of a cord set with two rows of pink beads with a brass knot at one end. Hanging from this cord are eleven almost square bead works. These eleven bead works were made according to the so-called 'Baustein-technik' (Lemaire, 1960: 216 and Chater, 1931: 60), they have a similar pattern of white, black, pink and green beads and are finished off at the bottom with red beads.\ The n…