- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Necklet of perforated black shells threaded on yarn. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 16/8/2005]
- Person
- Field collector Charles Smith
- PRM source The Executors of the Charles Smith Estate
- PRM source Alfred T. Collier
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1908
- Date collected
- By 1908
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1923
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Yarn, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 350 mm doubled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.87.327
Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament
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