- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Box containing a large native shell bead and 3 small perforated shell discs. For a pierced cowrie shell which has been removed from the box please see 1906.51.3.6.2.
- Date
- Date collected
- Excavated 1906
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1906
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Cowrie Shell, Material Bead, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 14 mm largest bead
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1906.51.3.6.1
- Research and responses
See information about E.M. Andrews archaeological work around Umtali in David Randall MacIver's 1906 'Medieval Rhodesia' p. 35 [AP 31/07/2009]
The Sabi River is known today as the Save River. [AS 24/09/2010]
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