Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona, ca. 1000 to 1300 CE. A lovely necklace comprised of many hand-cut disc-shaped shell beads of purple and wine hues around the neck with numerous hand-cut, drilled, and polished carnelian beads - bullet-shaped, lozenge-shaped, and rounded - of a roughly graduated arrangement forming the central section of the collar. Size: 15" L (38.1 cm); longest bead measures 1.5" L (3.8 cm)

Provenance: private Walter Crawford collection, Arizona, USA

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Some beads with losses to one perforated end, minor nicks and scuffs to some beads. Overall very good.