- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Large dark blue glass chevron bead with red, green and white visible at ends.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Associated person Reverend William MacGregor
- PRM source Percy Edward Newberry
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Anthony John Arkell
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1948
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 26/10/1971
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Glass, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Width 30 mm, Length 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.1406
- Research and responses
Please note the full name of P.E. Newberry was located in the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities [L.Ph 25/3/2004]
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