Necklace of ostrich egg shell beads with a pendant wound in small blue and white beads

Item

Title

Necklace of ostrich egg shell beads with a pendant wound in small blue and white beads

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Neck Ornament
Medicine

Description

Medicinal necklace made from a string of onjeva (ostrich egg) beads from which hangs a pendant wound with small blue beads and small white eggshell beads. The necklace has been stained red with lukula.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Eggshell

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.111
A37/111

Source

The Powell-Cotton Museum
Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust