Head ornament: perforated white Cypraea shells threaded on string. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/9/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Head ornament: perforated white Cypraea shells threaded on string. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/9/2005]
Geographical reference: Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands; Unknown
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 29/04/1878
Date collected: By 29 April 1878
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Cowrie Shell, Material String
Dimensions: Length: max 380 mm doubled, with string
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.73.12
Research and responses: Presumably the reference to an adjoining photo refers to the contemporary display at the Pitt Rivers Museum. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
The sale at which this was purchased was announced in The Times, no. 29,238 (Thursday 25 April 1878), p. 16, col. a: 'To Collectors and Keepers of Museums. FOR SALE by Public AUCTION, at the London Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on Monday, 29th April, 1878, a collection of WARLIKE IMPLEMENTS, comprising spears, bows and arrows, clubs, &c.; also dresses, charms, idols, &c. from the Fiji and Solomon Islands. Catalogues and all particulars of DEVITT and HETT, Brokers, 16, Mark-lane.' [JC 6 11 2014]

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