Earrings
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1987
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Melvyn C. Goldstein
label: Collector
content: Dr. Cynthia Beall
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Melvyn C. Goldstein
notes: label: Notes
content: COLLECTOR'S TAG SAYS: "WOMAN'S EARRINGS. SILVER MADE BY VILLAGERS. BEADS BOUGHT FROM TRADERS. (AMSHE)" SOLID COLORED GLASS BEADS STRUNG ON COTTON CORDS. GREEN, AMBER, WHITE, RED, AND LIGHT GREEN BEADS. TOP (?) OF EACH EARRING HAS TASSELS OF RED STRING. BOTTOM (?) OF EACH EARRING HAS SILVER MEDALLION WITH RADIATING PATTERN AROUND RED-ORANGE INLAID BEAD IN THE CENTER. CONFIRMED VIA EMAIL WITH MELVYN GOLDSTEIN (JUNE 5, 2002) THAT TERM IN PARENTHESES IS THE OBJECT NAME IN THE LOCAL NOMADIC DIALECT.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Chang Tang (Changthang) Region, Tibet, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tibetan, Phala
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378794
label: USNM Number
content: E430464-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earring
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36.5 cm
label: Diameter - Medallion
content: 3.5 cm