H x W x D: 7 × 17 × 3 cm (2 3/4 × 6 11/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
Type:
Jewelry
Geography:
Mandara Mountains, Cameroon
Date:
Early to mid-20th century
Description:
Brass necklace with ten curving pendants ending in open circles. Pendants strung on fiber, each separated by yellow cylindrical glass beads
Provenance:
Harold Gray, collected in northern Cameroon, 1963 to 2015
Exhibition History:
The Art of Cameroon, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES), Washington, D.C., 1984; New Orleans Museum of Art; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; American Museum of Natural History, New York
Published References:
Northern, Tamara. 1984. The Art of the Cameroon. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, SITES, page 200, no. 142.
Robbins, Warren M. and Nancy Ingram Nooter. 1989. African Art in American Collections. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, page 305, no.777.
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