A necklace, so-called "ulimi" (Zulu term for tongue) which consists out of green, white and red glass pearls. As pendants serve a broad pearl band with zigzag pattern and a walnut that is entwisted with pearls. The walnut is fixed to the necklace by an own, smaller chain and has a hole at the bottom. It served as a snuffbox according to the inventory.
In 1923, Max Hößle committed the object, as part of a collection, to the Gewerbemuseum (Museum of Applied Arts) Ulm. Ulrich Hößle compiled the collection around 1880 in South Africa in the region of Pietermaritzburg in the present province of KwaZulu-Natal. The territory then belonged to the British Colony of Natal.
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