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Gold and shell bead bracelet
Calima (?)
A.D. 100–900
Object Place: Cauca and Calima River Valleys, Valle de Cauca Department, Colombia
Medium/Technique
Gold and shell
Dimensions
2.5 x 16.4 cm (1 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica
Accession Number1980.639
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Bracelets and armlets
DescriptionModern stringing of ancient long, hollow tubular gold beads and small orange and white shell beads likely made from spondylus and other Pacific Ocean shell.
ProvenanceDescended in the Coolidge Family, Massachusetts; to Catherine Coolidge Lastavica in 1959; to MFA, December 1980, gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica.