Earhangers made of shell

"361-25" Pair of Tonto Apache ear pendants; cotton string, abalone shell, glass beads; l. (whole specimen) 7 and 10 cm.; ca. 1880.‖ Both men and women might wear ear pendants, and Ten Kate recorded that these were women's. One is longer than the other, but both are simply large white, blue, black and red white-heart glass beads strung on commercial cotton thread, with an irregularly shaped pendant…