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In South Africa, Zulu people marked important stages in their lives
by wearing different coloured beads. When a girl fell in love with
a man, she made him a bead necklace, and made herself a matching
set of bead jewellery. This Zulu neck ornament was collected by
William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt, who was Pitt Rivers’s third
son. He fought in the Zulu wars and donated the objects he acquired
to his father.
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database record 1884.76.4
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