Coconut bead belt or necklet, beads linked with coconut fibre; a few shell disc beads at one end. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/7/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Coconut bead belt or necklet, beads linked with coconut fibre; a few shell disc beads at one end. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/7/2005]
Geographical reference: Micronesia, Federated States of
Oceania > Micronesia > Micronesia, Federated States of; Palau
Oceania > Micronesia > Palau
Person: Field collector John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear; Field collector HMS Challenger; Field collector HMS Alert; Field collector HMS Flying Fish; PRM source Julia Maclear
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1891
Date collected: 1873 - 1876 [Challenger] and 1879 - 1891 [other surveying work]
Acquisition information: Donated: 1908
Materials and processes: Material Coconut Husk Plant, Material Bead, Material Shell, Material Coconut Fibre Plant, Process Beadwork, Process Strung
Dimensions: Length: max 700 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1908.31.3
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letter from F B W Philip (M.D. Ball. [?] Coll). to Balfour, dated 26 May 1908: 'I hope to call at the Museum on Thursday next before I p[illegible] in order to bring for the Pitt Rivers Museum a Chinese implement which a friend has left intr [?sic] for presentation to the Collection and which I think you will find of considerable interest. Truly [?sic] that I may have the pleasure of personally handing over the specimen to you.' [It is unclear to which item in particular this letter refers.] [MOB 25/10/2001]

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