Beaded necklace. Part of set of 5, longest in set. Band formed of 8 wires threaded with brightly coloured beads and fastened together with spaced plastic bands. Top 5 wires threaded mainly with orange beads interspaced with white triangular pattern and vertical bands in white, black and brown. 6th wire made of light blue beads with bottom two wires threaded with beads forming different coloured bands of blue, orange, white, black and green. Jagged final band of yellow beads forming small triangles. Silver metal chain finished with silver disks suspended from the tip of each triangle. Centre of necklace has a white pearlescent button.
necklace
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