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Necklace with beads (sadi?)
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This necklace has an abundance of phallic beads representing fertility framed by dozens of smaller silver beads. Specialists in gold and silver would melt silver into small balls that were then attached to drawn rods of metal. Atop each bead is a pile of small granulations; these tiny metal spheres are small like pieces of grain.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineNecklace with beads (sadi?), late 1800s or early 1900s. Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, unknown silversmith. Silver alloy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Raymond A. Silverman, 2025.153
