crotales

A necklace consisting of thirty-six hollow lost wax cast gold beads threaded in a symmetrical arrangement onto a European-made gold chain. The separate elements consist of: 1 bi-facial disc pendant, 19 bi-facial disc-beads, 3 spherical crotal bell beads, 2 European-style open-work bells (nnonnoma), 2 open-work conjoined spherical beads (adweetedwakye), 7 open-work spherical beads, 1 silk cotton husk bead (akonkodee) and a flat rectangular clasp (safi). Smaller castings have been added as pendants to larger ones.