String of white shell beads, interspersed with pink and black beads. Part of a bundle of 6 joined at both ends [1920.100.1-6]. [El.B 30/08/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: String of white shell beads, interspersed with pink and black beads. Part of a bundle of 6 joined at both ends [1920.100.1-6]. [El.B 30/08/2011]
Geographical reference: Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands; Florida Island
Person: Field collector Robert Henry Codrington; Field collector Melanesian Mission; PRM source Robert Henry Codrington; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1885
Date collected: By 1885
Acquisition information: Donated: 1885, uncertain Transferred: 1886, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Shell, Material Plant Fibre, Process Strung, Process Perforated, Process Twisted
Dimensions: Length 1700 mm approx
Object numbers: Accession number: 1920.100.5
Research and responses: These items were most probably first received by the OUMNH in 1885, and recorded in the OUMNH Annual Report for that year, see entry above [AP 15/10/2012]
It is not clear why these items were placed in the Donations I accession book but it may be that there were received in 1886? [AP 20/10/99] This would seem to be the case, according to the entry in the Codrington catalogue [accession book? AP] . [CW 8/3/2001]

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