- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Four strings of red shell beads joined together at both ends. [El.B 30/08/2011]
- Long description
- Four strings of red shell beads joined together at both ends. The red beads are interspersed with black and white beads. At each end the strings have sections of white beads. Attached to one end are two strings of white shell beads, one with a tassel of a banana seed and a strip of red textile (missing in the other one). [El.B 30/08/2011]
- Person
- Field collector Frederick Henry Drew
- Field collector Melanesian Mission
- PRM source Frederick Henry Drew
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- By 1911
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1911
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Banana Seed Plant, Material Textile, Material Plant Fibre, Process Strung, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1720 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.54.51
1911.54.51
Four strings of red shell beads joined together at both ends. [El.B 30/08/2011]
1911.54.51
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