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Beaded Earrings
Beaded Earrings
Beaded Earrings

Beaded Earrings

Maker Wilma Maynas (Shipibo-Conibo)
Date2017
Place madeCantagallo, Lima, Peru, South America
MediumGlass beads, seeds, polyester filament, metal hooks
Dimensions8 1/16 × 7/8 × 3/8 in. (20.5 × 2.3 × 1 cm)
Classifications(Classification Not Used)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2017.38.1ab
Object numberFA.2017.38.1ab
DescriptionLong beaded earrings. In each earring, eight strands of colorful beads, coming from hook, connect to a beaded cyllinder with a blue x on it. From the cyllinder, eight more strands desend and terminate in small gray seeds.
On View
Not on view
Seed purse-necklace
Artist unrecorded
Seed basket
Artist unrecorded
Beads
Artist unrecorded
ca. 1920s
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Karmiben
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Title holder's headdress or Nyim's crown
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Seed basket
Artist unrecorded
Seed basket
Artist unrecorded