String Of Beads
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1918
name: label: Donor Name
content: Royal Ontario Museum Of Archaeology, Toronto
notes: label: Notes
content: Ostrich egg shell beads with blue faience bead ends.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Ostrich eggshell beads 2000-1500 BC (probable). These beads come from a time when ostriches were widespread in Egypt and highly valued. A single tall ostrich plume, for example, was an important religious symbol representing justice and truth, known as Maat (Mah-aht).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 50
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 062402
label: USNM Number
content: A303321-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead