Two earrings formed of coloured beads threaded onto wire, to create an ornate shape. The beads are mostly small, and are blue, white, red, orange and green in colour. Larger red black and yellow beads form a line down the centre of the earring, and each earring is decorated with two cream buttons. Each earring has a protrusion at the side of blue and red beads threaded onto a wire, and at the end of this beads on thread dangle down, with a metal disc at the end.
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