Neck ornament consisting of 58 strings of small cylindrical dark blue glass beads (some broken) fixed at both ends with clay and red ochre; fastens with a plant fibre loop and ?wood toggle. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/7/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Neck ornament consisting of 58 strings of small cylindrical dark blue glass beads (some broken) fixed at both ends with clay and red ochre; fastens with a plant fibre loop and ?wood toggle. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/7/2005]
Geographical reference: Namibia
Africa > Southern Africa > Namibia
Cultural groups: Kwanyama
Person: Field collector Christopher Powell-Cotton; Field collector Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; PRM source Christopher Powell-Cotton; PRM source Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1937
Date collected: January - September 1937
Acquisition information: Donated: 1949
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material Clay, Material Ochre, Material String Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Wood Plant, Process Strung
Dimensions: Length: max 390 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1949.3.45 Other numbers: 24
Research and responses: Related Documents File - List of 'Curios collected in Northern South West Africa and Angola, January to September 1939. Presented by Major P. H. G. Powell Cotton and Mr. Christopher Powell Cotton to Professor Balfour.' [Additional note]: Kept at Powell Cotton Museum during the War, 1949.3.42-74. List provides descriptions of object, location and local name. [Additional notes]: 'Navy beads used in all festive occasions as necklaces.' [GI 25/1/2002]