Pendant made from strings of onjeva beads and 3 'rungs' each part of 2 pieces of wood

Item

Title

Pendant made from strings of onjeva beads and 3 'rungs' each part of 2 pieces of wood

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Neck Ornament
Ornament

Description

Pendant made from strings of onjeva beads and 3 'rungs' each part of 2 pieces of wood; ladder formation. According to original cataloguing information, this would have been tied to a bead necklace and worn at chest by a woman of the Kwanyama people.[FHM15/08/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Bead
Tied
L = 240mm, W = 70mm [FHM15/08/2019]

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.112
A37/112

Source

[Chief] Nandi
Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937
The Powell-Cotton Museum

Space/Place

Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

Item sets

PCM object collections

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