necklace with bone cylinders

necklace with bone cylinders

necklace with bone cylinders

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Introduction

A neck ornament consisting of a hand braided vegetable fiber cord with four bone tubes, two engraved with geometric designs.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Materials

vegetable fibre in dark brown natural and blue-green, bone, dark brown colouration in the engraved lines

Techniques or Format

four bone tubes strung on a braided cord of dark brown, natural, and blue green elements

Motifs and Patterns

one tube ebgraved with parallel diagonal lines with a zigzag in between, another engraved with concentric rings

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E178382-0
GKS Reference Number: 27209
Approximate Place of Origin

42.3314, -83.0458