This fine Xhosa neck adornment consists of multiple sections of a very rare sweet-scented wood - a type of wood that was only reserved for decorating the necklaces of Xhosa nobility. Small nineteenth-century red and white glass beads, in which the red beads are of the white-heart variety, are spaced between each wooden segment.
Estimated Period: Late 19th Century
Ex Private Collection, UK
Dimensions of Custom-Made Mount - H: 27.5cm x W: 31cm
Reference
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Image Credits
Photographs of display cases from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Photograph of Zulu Woman - Taken by Otto Witt, ca. 1896. Ethnografiska Museet, Sweden (ID No: 0010. 0016)
MBN.GEO
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