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Description
A beadwork design made using Amazonian techniques, set on a framework of kumihimo.
Key Facts
MATERIAL: beadwork set on a framework of kumihimo
COLLECTOR/DONOR: Jacqui Carey
Description
A continuous silk kumihimo braid coiled round and through hand-turned brass beads. This piece was influenced by the Hawaiian necklace with its coils of plaited human hair.
Key Facts
MATERIAL: silk kumihimo braid and hand-turned brass beads
COLLECTOR/DONOR: Jacqui Carey
USE: Necklace
Description
A selection of silk kumihimo braids with beads added during the braiding process. A row of black onyx beads form the centre of the necklace. The ends are crocheted and fasten with an antique button.
Key Facts
MATERIAL: silk kumihimo braids, black onyx beads, antique button
COLLECTOR/DONOR: Jacqui Carey
Description
A quilt effect kumihimo braid with black onyx and gold-plated beads. The beads were added after the braid was completed.
Key Facts
MATERIAL: kumihimo braid with black onyx and gold-plated beads.
COLLECTOR/DONOR: Jacqui Carey
USE: Necklace
Description
European glass beads threaded onto double-stranded weft of fine cotton, with fringes and ties of twisted thread. Made on a portable wooden frame with vertical warps of cotton or silk grass.
Key Facts
ORIGIN: Arawak peoples, Amazon
MATERIAL: European glass beads, cotton, silk grass
USE: Apron
Description
The pendant of ivory, either sperm-whale or walrus, is suspended from a necklace of finely plaited strands of human hair with olona fibre ties. It was worn by men amd women of chiefly rank.
Key Facts
ORIGIN: Hawaii, Polynesia
MATERIAL: ivory, human hair, olona fibre
USE: Ornament
Description
Multi-strand glass bead necklacewith a coin, dated 1917, as the fastener ('George V King Emperor', and his image on the obverse). The beads originate from either Italy or Czechoslovakia. Such necklaces are worn in hanks by men and women
Key Facts
ORIGIN: North East India
MATERIAL: glass beads, coin
USE: Necklace
Description
Necklace: India Necklace with conical gold terminals and clusters of red and black glass beads.
Key Facts
ORIGIN: India, South Asia
MATERIAL: gold, red and black glass beads
USE: Necklace
