Object Details
- Description
- Silver alloy earrings composed of central horizontal hollow cylinders with rounded, closed ends, decorated with applied circles of twisted wire. Three circular openwork pendants dangle from the bottom of each cylinder and are decorated with open circles of twisted wire. The cylinders are each suspended from two handmade chains suspended from another openwork circle with open circles of twisted wire, and suspended from the fish hook earrings.
- Provenance
- Marian Johnson, purchased in Dakar, Senegal, 1963-late 20th century to 2012
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Marian Ashby Johnson
- Medium
- Silver alloy
- Dimensions
- A: 11.1 x 4.7 x 2 cm (4 3/8 x 1 7/8 x 13/16 in.)
- B: 10.9 x 4.7 x 2 cm (4 5/16 x 1 7/8 x 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Jewelry
