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1971.15.384

Yellow glass pendant possibly made to represent half the basal whorl of a conus shell. [FC 18/02/2011]

1971.15.384

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Collection type
Object
Description
Yellow glass pendant possibly made to represent half the basal whorl of a conus shell. [FC 18/02/2011]
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Czech Republic
Europe > Eastern Europe > Czech Republic
Northern Nigeria Sokoto State Kaura Namoda [Jablonec nad Nisou]
Cultural groups
Tuareg Berber
Czech
Person
Field collector Anthony John Arkell
PRM source Anthony John Arkell
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1937
Date collected
1937
Acquisition information
Donated: 26/10/1971
Materials and processes
Material Glass, Material Paste Glass, Process Perforated, Process Strung, Process Moulded
Dimensions
Width 50 mm, Length 31 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1971.15.384
Research and responses

Many beads and ornaments produced in France, Germany and the Czech Republic, thought to be opaque glass or porcelein are actually the products of a milk-paste which is moulded under high pressure and then fired, giving the appearance of glass or porcelein, but actually being a synthetic material. Ref: Picard, R and J. 1995. 'Prosser Beads: The French Connection' in Ornament 19 (2): 68 - 71. In RDF. [MO'B 27/4/2001]

Associated publications
For a colour photograph of a series of objects from the Arkell collection including this one, see Figure SW16 in 'The Studies of A. J. Arkell on the Movement of Beads in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the 1930s', by Sara Withers, in International Bead & Beadwork Conference, 22-25 November 2007, Istanbul, edited by Jamey D. Allen and Valerie Hector, (no place [Istanbul]: Kadir Has University, no date [2007]), unpaginated. See also Withers's notes on this image on the third and fourth pages of her text. Copy of volume in Balfour Library; photocopy of Withers's paper in RDF: Researchers: Withers. [JC 28 8 2008]

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