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RARE 19TH CENTURY XHOSA NECK ADORNMENT, SOUTHERN AFRICA

£750

Rare 19th Century Neck Adornment. Xhosa Culture, Southern Africa

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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31 CM X 27.5 CM (MOUNTED)
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