Bead adornments · South Africa, Zulu · ID: 3036995
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Description
a) firm tube of fabric, wrapped with strings of glass beads, l: 86 cm; b) band-shaped beadwork, strengthened with fabric, mother of pearl buttons, l: 61 cm; both with small missing parts and traces of usage;
made by young girls; forwarding certain messages, expressed by the use of colours, their arrangement or special motifs.
The object Bead adornments with the object ID 3036995 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 567.
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