Delicate necklace "heishi" · Dee Shiao, Apache · ID: 3045868
sold
EUR 80
Provenance
collected 1962-2002Gisela Hoffmann, Würzburg, Germany
Size
L: 45 cm
L: 17.7 inch
Description
silver (stamped “sterling”), five-stranded, jet, label with note: “hand-strung by Dee Shiao”
“Heishi” (from the Santo Domingo word meaning “shell”) traditionally referred to necklace shell beads. Today, however, it describes tiny, handmade beads of any material.
The object Delicate necklace “heishi” with the object ID 3045868 was last part of the auction 93rd Tribal Art Auction at November 16, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 401 achieved a sales price of EUR 80.
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