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1951.6.73

Plastron (breast-ornament) of tapering cylindrical beads of bone in 3 parallel rows with leather thongs between and at the edges. 2 loops of spherical brass beads joined by leather strip along the top edge. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]

1951.6.73
Collection type
Object
Description
Plastron (breast-ornament) of tapering cylindrical beads of bone in 3 parallel rows with leather thongs between and at the edges. 2 loops of spherical brass beads joined by leather strip along the top edge. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]
Cultural groups
Native American
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1951
Date collected
By 1951
Acquisition information
Donated: 1951
Materials and processes
Material Brass Metal, Material Bead, Material Bone, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Strung
Dimensions
Width: max 285 mm, Length: max 331 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1951.6.73
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]

Lent to the Art Gallery & Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, for the HOME OF THE BRAVE exhibition, 14 May - 28 September 1992.

Search terms: Ornament, Bead, Breast Ornament

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