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Necklace made chiefly of yellow beads. On each side those closest to the nape is a group of three, ivory in colour, then a group in pale yellow, six on one side and seven on the other, then the main section with brownish yellow regularly sized beads. Pendant at the bottom made of many short tiny tassles of threaded black yellow and red beads. At the nape there is an imported striped bead on each side at the end of the string of yellow beads. Tied together with string at nape.
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