500435 Necklace, Northern Nguni or Zulu, 1800s (glass beads, bone, sinew) by South African School, (19th century); h:38.10 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: When wild game was still plentiful in the region, real animal claws would have been used to punctuate beaded prestige necklaces. Lion-claw necklaces were the exclusive property of royalty while the bone imitations were owned and worn by high-ranking individuals of lesser status. Large red glass beads were also reserved for the Nguni elite in the period before the destruction of the Zulu kingdom in 1879. ); Gift of Dori and Daniel Rootenberg in memory of Estelle Rosenberg; South African, out of copyright.