Necklace

48-29-95

From: Egypt

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 48-29-95
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt
Section African
Materials Glass | Fiber
Description

Double strings of blue and white small beads, joined by short single strings; flat round pendant covered with blue, white, and brown beads with bead and shell fringe. Sometimes worn by a woman at a zar (ceremony performed by and for persons possessed by a sheikh or sheikhs).

Length 40 cm
Outside Diameter 5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Presbyterian Board of Missions, 1948

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