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1907.38.96

?Shell bead, one of thirty one beads strung together (see 1907.38.92 to 1907.38.122) [ZM 12/08/2008]

1907.38.96

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Collection type
Object
Description
?Shell bead, one of thirty one beads strung together (see 1907.38.92 to 1907.38.122) [ZM 12/08/2008]
Geographical reference
Zimbabwe
Africa > Eastern Africa > Zimbabwe
Umtali, Webster Ruin
Person
Field collector E.M. Andrews
PRM source E.M. Andrews
Date / Period
Date made: 1600-1700?, uncertain
Date collected
By 1907
Acquisition information
Donated: 1907
Materials and processes
Material Shell
Dimensions
Length x Width 3 x 10 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1907.38.96
Research and responses

See information about E.M. Andrews archaeological work around Umtali in David Randall MacIver's 1906 'Medieval Rhodesia' p. 35 and on [AP 31/07/2009]

Associated publications
Andrews, E.M. 1907a: The Webster Ruins. Proceedings and Transactions of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 7 (1), 62–71. Andrews, E.M. 1907b: The Webster Ruins. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 50 (1): 35–47. [AS 31/08/2010]

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