Description:

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian people, Earliest Horizon, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A restrung necklace made of flat cylindrical beads of shell and agate. The necklace is dominated by a large pendant made of a wonderfully-colored orange/red/white shell with a weathered surface and drilled through for suspension. A huge agate bead sits behind it, anchoring it to the necklace. Size: 9.5" L (of chain); 5.4" W x 3.75" H (of shell) (24.1 cm; 13.7 cm x 9.5 cm)

Provenance: ex-Collection of Marcel Ebnother, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

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#119536

  • Condition: Modern stringing; some surface wear to beads/shell.

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