Wooden Bead Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Nov 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Jules Hebert
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "1 cm dia. black round wooden beads, except for two of white ivory, and one thin tubular wooden one 4.4 cm. L. This is probably a Moslem rosary-type necklace used for religious counting.) Restrung in Museum on wire)".
label: Notes
content: Refer: Casanowiz, I. M: Coll. Rosaries in USNM., Proc. USNM., vol. 36, p. 350. Object is described there under entry # 76 (listed there as catalogue # 76709) and identified as a Muslim rosary/prayer beads. See also p. 88, # 80 in USNM Bulletin 148.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Senegal, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wolof
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016748
label: USNM Number
content: E76709G-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Prayer Beads