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1953.6.34

Necklet of brass beads. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/6/2005]

1953.6.34

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Collection type
Object
Description
Necklet of brass beads. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/6/2005]
Cultural groups
Tsonga
Person
Field collector Frederic John Newnham
PRM source Miss G.F. Newnham
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1906
Date collected
1906
Acquisition information
Donated: 1953
Materials and processes
Material Bead, Material Brass Metal, Process Strung
Dimensions
Length: max 495 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1953.6.34
Research and responses

Related Documents File - 'List of native curios collected by F. J. Newnham, between 1894 and 1907', written by G. F. Newnham with additional information on a related photographic collection: 'The British Museum also holds the negatives of a certain number of photographs of the native locations whence the exhibits were collected in 1906. They seem to think these will be increasingly valuable, as my father caught the native way of living just before the transition period and the advent of modern aids . . . ' [GI 7/2/2002]

Search terms: Ornament, Bead, Neck Ornament