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Two necklaces; the smaller one with turquoise stones was found wrapped around the wrist of a child, Sinagua Culture; the longer necklace is 9.6 inches and consists of about 236 stones (one in the shape of a bird). Mogollon Culture. Noseplug of blue-green travertine. Length: 1.6 inches. Sinagua Culture, MNA.
MNA = Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (Arizona)

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Libye - Tadrart Acacus - Teshouinat-Tagzelt - Personnage à «tête en tiret», surmontée de deux plumes. Collier double autour du cou et bracelet double au bras gauche. Une pièce d'étoffe ou de cuir est observable du côté gauche également. Autour de la taille, deux anses inexpliquées. Hauteur de la surface représentée : 0,25 m.

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Une femme Shipibo, qui craint le soleil tropical de la forêt, s'est retirée dans sa hutte et s'est mise à confectionner un collier formé de perles et de semences. - San Francisco près Pucallpa (département d’Ucayali). - 1969

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Précieuse parure de momie d'un tombeau antique de Larache, au nord du Chili, datée d'environ 1.000 av. J.-C. par le Père Le Paige. Deux colliers, l'un en rondelles de turquoises, l'autre en petits tubes de lapis-lazuli, entourent une plaque pectorale en or, une grosse turquoise et quatre clochettes d'or, entre deux «plumes» d'or ajourées. (Museo de San Pedro de Atacama, Chili.)

The tumulus represents the simplest type of the great series of Saharan funerary monuments, known as "Libyco-Berber" or, better still, "pre-Islamic". From this period onwards, there was a change in the choice of materials used to make jewellery, the first glass paste beads, imported marine shells, cones and cypresses in particular, and carnelian for the manufacture of beads made according to a new technique, as the hole is straighter and the polishing perfect. The necklace in the centre is from this period, while the other two, above and to the left, show the persistence of the glass paste beads, which are often coloured blue, until the present day. (IFAN Collection, Dakar, Senegal) - 1969

The art of adornment, so developed today, appears in the Saharan Neolithic with a sudden and unexpected brilliance. Early explorers of South Africa reported the curious way in which ostrich egg beads were made. Test fragments were punctured, threaded onto a thong which, at the end of the operation, was knotted at both ends. The resulting coarse roll was then walked for a long time on all sides inside a narrow groove cut in a soft stone. At the end of the operation, the beads were perfectly circular. But their main purpose was to be used as... money! The majority of ancient ornaments are reused nowadays; however, plastic has recently been added to the rich material of the beautiful coloured stones (IFAN collections, Dakar). - 1969