Description:

Pre-Columbian, south coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A lovely and wearable necklace fashioned from dozens of petite seed-form beads carved from creamy yellow-white shell fragments. The necklace features two lengthy strands of seed beads that bear abstract incised pendants along the midsections, and the strands coalesce behind the neck and terminate in twisted fibrous cords with a petite loop and a broad shell fastener. Size (necklace): 31" L (78.7 cm); (largest pendant): 0.75" W x 1.8" H (1.9 cm x 4.6 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected in the 1950s to 1960s

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#126854

  • Condition: Strung in modern times and wearable as shown. Shell components are ancient, and stringing is modern. Minor nicks to some beads, otherwise intact and very good. Smooth patina throughout.

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