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1961.5.7B

Necklace: black seeds threaded on plant fibre string, with pendants of large, perforated, pear-shaped black seeds, suspended from strings of assorted coloured trade beads. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]

1961.5.7B

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Collection type
Object
Description
Necklace: black seeds threaded on plant fibre string, with pendants of large, perforated, pear-shaped black seeds, suspended from strings of assorted coloured trade beads. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]
Geographical reference
Ecuador
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Ecuador
Northeast Oriente Rio Cuyabeno
Cultural groups
Secoya
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1960
Date collected
1960
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1961
Materials and processes
Material Plant Seed, Material Bead, Material Glass, Material Plant Fibre, Material String, Process Threaded, Process Perforated
Dimensions
Length: max 750 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1961.5.7B
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Receipt, dated 17 October and returned cheque confirming the payment for "a collection of musical instruments, ornaments etc., made in Ecuador by the Oxford University Expedition to Equador, 1961". [EB 20/2/2002]

Search terms: Ornament, Trade, Bead, Neck Ornament

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