Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1909.21.59

Neck ornament, consisting of 9 heavy elongated tubular beads of white shell strung together with smaller beads of ? bone. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/7/2005]

1909.21.59

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Neck ornament, consisting of 9 heavy elongated tubular beads of white shell strung together with smaller beads of ? bone. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/7/2005]
Geographical reference
India
Asia > Southern Asia > India
Nagaland
Cultural groups
Naga
Person
Field collector Robert Gosset Woodthorpe
PRM source Edward Thomas Wilson
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1898
Date collected
By 1898
Acquisition information
Donated: 1909
Materials and processes
Material Shell, Material Bead, Material String, Material Bone, Material Fish Bone, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Strung
Dimensions
Length: max 350 mm doubled
Object numbers
Accession number: 1909.21.59

Search terms: Ornament, Bead, Neck Ornament