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.