Bell and Tube-Bead Necklace

Bell and Tube-Bead Necklace

Public Domain

CultureMoche (possibly)
Titles
  • Bell and Tube-Bead Necklace
Date100–800 AD
PlaceColombia, South America
MediumGold
Dimensions1 × 14L in. (2.5 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.870
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance[Sotheby's, New York, November 15, 1994, lot 63][1]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913—2008), Houston, November 15, 1994—2001 [1]; given to MFAH, 2001.

[1] Glassell Inventory- described on November 21, 1994.

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