Bead

Museum number:

9-12518

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Alternate number:

3915 (previous number (Design Dept.))

Accession number:

Acc.3032

Object count:

1

Description:

Ojime: Very dark, rusting, oblong metal bead w/ white, silver like floral overlay design on one side. Dark stain in depressions of the decoration. L. 2.2cm.

Donor:

Design (UC Berkeley)

Collection place:

Japan

Verbatim coll. place:

Japan

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Collector:

Albert M. Bender

Collection date:

before 1933

Materials:

Metal and Silver (metal)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Beads (pierced objects)

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Accession date:

1974

Context of use:

Sliding Bead used to tighten the cords between the netsuke and inro

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

length 2.2 centimeters

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