- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Boy's necklet of twenty-four threaded sections of wing bone of hornbill. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/6/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Konyak Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1921
- Date collected
- February 1921
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 05/1921 Donated: 1928
- Dimensions
- Length: max 230 mm doubled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1928.69.211
Search terms: Ornament, Children and Childcare, Neck Ornament
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