Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Forty-six multi-colored glass beads of various lengths on single string; all cylindrical with exception of one with tapered ends.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Calvin W. Stillman
- ca. 1860
- Accession Number
- 1969-148-1-a/tt
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Decorative Arts
- Beads
- Medium
- Millefiori glass, raffia
- Dimensions
- H x diam. (largest example): 5.1 x 1.7 cm (2 x 11/16 in.)
- H x diam. (smallest example): 1.8 x 1.3 cm (11/16 x 1/2 in.)
- distributed in
- Ghana
- made in
- Tarkwa, Ghana, Europe
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1969-148-1-a_tt
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq43230a6d9-990c-4d2b-98f7-dd20fe5f4398
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