- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Neck pendant; 2 dogs' canine teeth, 1 large seed capsule, nassa shells and strings of plant-seed & glass beads, with plant fibre tassels. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/12/2005]
- Geographical reference
- West Papua
- 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: 1909
- Materials and processes
- Material Dog Tooth Animal, Material Plant Seed Capsule, Material Shell, Material Plant Fibre Yarn, Material Bead, Material Glass, Process Perforated, Process Strung, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 440 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1909.30.64
Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament, Pendant
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