Necklace with snuffbox (ulimi/ixama) | Photographer: Oleg Kuchar | Rights management: Museum Ulm
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Necklace, so-called "ulimi" (Zulu term for tongue), made of green, white and red glass beads. The pendant is a wide beaded band with a zigzag pattern and a walnut walnut, which is braided with beads. The walnut is attached to the necklace attached to the necklace with its own smaller chain and has a hole on the has a hole on the underside. According to the inventory, it served as a snuffbox. The object was donated to the museum as part of a collection given to the Gewerbemuseum by Max Hößle in 1923. It was created by Ulrich Hößle around 1880 in South Africa, in the area of Pietermaritzburg, today's province of KwaZulu-Natal. At the time, the area belonged to the British colony of Natal.