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TWO PLAINS INDIAN NECKLACES
One strung with forty-three bear claws between large pale blue glass beads and suspending three teeth; the other with twenty-three bird talons, three seed beads and a black glass bead on hide cord
96.5cm. and 43cm. long (2)
One strung with forty-three bear claws between large pale blue glass beads and suspending three teeth; the other with twenty-three bird talons, three seed beads and a black glass bead on hide cord
96.5cm. and 43cm. long (2)
Provenance
James Hooper, numbers 1658 and 1659
Literature
Phelps, S., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, the James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, p.349, Pl.209
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