Description:

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A fine necklace of a wearable form made with nine pottery spindle whorl beads. Each bead has a spherical body with a central carination, a perforated suspension hole, and a register of abstract avian creatures along the exterior with white pigment to bring out the finer details. The beads are strung on modern red thread with a loop on one end and a button fastener on the other. Size (necklace): 20.6" L (52.3 cm); (largest bead): 0.55" W x 0.5" H (1.4 cm x 1.3 cm)

Provenance: ex-HDE Enterprise/ Hank Johnson collection, Denver, Colorado before 2000

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#151542

  • Condition: Strung in modern times and wearable as shown. Pottery spindle whorl beads are ancient, and stringing and button are modern. Beads have minor nicks, fading and/or loss to original white pigment, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. Original iconography still visible on beads.

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