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Bead Necklace

Arts of the Americas

CULTURE Osage
MEDIUM Shell, string
  • Place Made: Pahuska, Oklahoma, United States
    • DATES late 19th–early 20th century
    COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas
    ACCESSION NUMBER 11.694.9024
    CREDIT LINE Museum Expedition 1911, Museum Collection Fund
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Five strand necklace with blue and white shell beads (originally six strands). The shell beads have bone hair-pipe beads strung with them. Original title of 'wampum' came from Culin, note: the beads are not wampum beads but other shell type beads.
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