Individual beaded panels can be formed into necklaces or attached to other items of clothing. Zulu beadwork conveys messages through its geometric designs, color--each color has positive and negative meanings--and the juxtaposition of the colors, whether the beads are glass or plastic, opaque or transparent.
Description:
Small glass beads form a panel on a knotted fiber string with a white background with central diamonds of red inside green and a red and white border.
Provenance:
Constance Stuart Larrabee, South Africa, 1937-1949 to 2000
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