Pair of Earrings
These colorful beaded earrings feature complex patterns executed in tiny beads, with additional Amazonian seeds as pendants on beaded strings below. The cobalt, light green and white beads form one of the complex weblike designs called kené in the Indigenous Shipibo language. These compositions of straight and curved lines are invented by women, who apply them to textiles, ceramics, wood objects, and beaded adornments
Provenance
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Mrs. Olga Pertzoff, Lincoln, Massachusetts [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Family of Mrs. Olga Pertzoff, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1980, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1985, by gift.
Measurements
Each H: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the estate and family of Mrs. Olga Monks Pertzoff, 1985
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
1985.20.15-16
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