ANTIQUE MIZO AMBER NECKLACE

Harry L Neufeld

Burmese amber, known as Burmite, found in northern Burma as long as 2000 years ago, traded to and worn by women from the Chin tribe of Myanmar and the now Mizoram (previously Assam) state of Northeast India, as a necklace of cylindrical beads separated by old, thick tin discs, with old glass trade beads at the ends - with age and use showing in beads, and one small chipped amber disc between one pair of small tin discs, and the opposite amber disc missing between its two tin discs, as in picture - the beads are 25" in length; the weight is 140 grams total.

$875.00

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