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String of Beads

Object Number:P1310J
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Lampong
Provenience: Sumatra
Date Made: 1901
Early Date: 1901
Late Date: 1901
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Glass
Outside Diameter:0.51 cm
Credit Line:Gift of H. M. Hiller and Alfred C. Harrison Jr., 1901

Description

Numerous small glass beads, mostly black but with an occasional red, blue or white. Once strung, but now mostly loose. When strung probably had a short green wool tassel at each end. May have resembled P1310I. Stored in a small cylindrical wooden container.

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