- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Necklace.
- Geographical reference
- Northeast Oriente Rio Cuyabeno
- Cultural groups
- Secoya
- Person
- Field collector Oxford University Exploration Club
- PRM source Oxford University Exploration Club
- PRM source Michael R. Emerson
- PRM source Ralph Hudson Johnson
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1960
- Date collected
- 1960
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1961
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Seed, Material Bead, Process Threaded
- Dimensions
- Length: max 680 mm doubled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1961.5.11.2B Other PRM accession number: 1961.5.B11b
- 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, Neck Ornament
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