DepartmentTextiles-Latin America

Necklace

NameNecklace

Artist Artist not recorded

Place madeGuatemala, Central America

MediumCoral, coins, silver

Dimensions2yds 6"

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Florence Dibell Bartlett, A.1955.1.765 MA

Object numberA.1955.1.765 MA

Collections

The Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection

DescriptionNecklace made of coral, coins and silver beads. Corals are mainly true corals with various red glass beads ar random length string. Crucifix is more recent & inferior in quality to rest of necklace. Spacing coins are: 1/4 - reales, Guatemala, 1890 -97; 1 - reales, Guatemala, 1865 &68; 2 - reales, Guatemala, 1861; one dime, U.S. 1843; 1 silver peso, Chile, 1869 with two animals on either side; two-reales, Spain, 1789 & 1821; one-real, Spain, no date.