Bead
- Museum number:
- 9-12511
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090012511
- Alternate number:
- 3914 (previous number (Design Dept.))
- Accession number:
- Acc.3032
- Object count:
- 15
- Description:
- Ojime (pl.), string of 15 carved ivory pieces in shapes of various animals of the zodiac. Includes one boar with fine lines for fur, light brown color; 2 cocks, identical; 2 cows, almost identical, brown incised for fur; 1 goat, grey-brown; 1 pair of rabbits, smooth yellow; 2 horses identical, smooth yellow; 1 dragon, coiled angular surfaces; 1 dog, smooth yellow; 1 monkey, dark brown, many tiny incised lines for fur; 2 tigers, identical in shape, but one is dark brown, other white, each has black painted eyes, cord hole through backs. L. each 2 cm.
- Donor:
- Design Department (UC Berkeley)
- Collection place:
- Japan
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Japan
- Collector:
- Albert M. Bender
- Collection date:
- before 1933
- Materials:
- Hemp (fiber) and Ivory (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1974
- Department:
- Cat. 9 - Asia (incl. Russia east of Urals)
- Dimensions:
- each— length 2 centimeters
- Images:
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