- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Neck ornament of 25 conus shell bases on coconut fibre cord [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/7/2005]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1878
- Date collected
- By 1878
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 10/02/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Coconut Fibre Plant, Material Conus Shell, Process Strung, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 49 mm shell, Diameter: max 180 mm as tied
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.1580 Other numbers: 160 1571
Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament
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