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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…
Type of item
- Object Type: jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
- jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
Date
- voor 1920
Medium
- Material: glass
- Glass
- glass
Type of item
- Object Type: jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
- jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
Date
- voor 1920
Medium
- Material: glass
- Glass
- glass
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1920
Provenance
- 1977-06-20
- Aankoop
Identifier
- Halssieraad
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- blue
- black
- green
- pink
- white
- red
- amber (fossil resin)
- wax
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z