Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s5.27

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Another necklace of special beauty consists of a single row of barrel-shaped beads of translucent green jadeite, a stone found in Central Asia. It is beautified by disc-shaped beads of gold separating the green jadeite ones and further by setting pendants of agate and jasper in the centre. Two necklaces of minute gold cylindrical beads and of globular beads (मटरमाला) are attractive. A fine choker (Kaṇṭhā) worn on the neck comes from Mahenjo-daro consisting of six strings of globular beads separated at intervals by flat gold spacers and finished with hemi-spherical hollow terminals at each end..