- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Breast pendant: a ring of cone shell, serrated along part of circumference. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/9/2005]
- Person
- Field collector Charles Edward Monro
- Field collector HMS Penguin
- PRM source Charles Edward Monro
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1895
- Date collected
- 1894 -1895
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1926
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 51 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1926.23.76
Search terms: Ornament, Breast Ornament, Pendant
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