- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Necklace of assorted glass trade beads (especially yellow and transparent) with pig incisors, large canines and bones. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/12/2005]
- Geographical reference
- San Blas Islands
- Cultural groups
- Guna
- Person
- Field collector Lilian Mabel Alice Richmond Brown
- Field collector Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges
- PRM source Lilian Mabel Alice Richmond Brown
- PRM source Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1922
- Date collected
- 1922
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1924
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Glass, Material Pig Tooth Animal, Material Animal Tooth, Material Animal Bone, Process Strung, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 340 mm doubled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1924.46.55
Search terms: Ornament, Trade, Neck Ornament
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