Necklet of boar's tusks with plaited cane and cowrie shells round the blunt ends and fastened with cane loops and a bone toggle. Attached a square piece of conch shell and another piece between the pointed ends. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Necklet of boar's tusks with plaited cane and cowrie shells round the blunt ends and fastened with cane loops and a bone toggle. Attached a square piece of conch shell and another piece between the pointed ends. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/11/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland Dikhu River
Cultural groups: Ao Naga
Person: Field collector Leslie Waterfield Shakespear; PRM source Leslie Waterfield Shakespear
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1923
Date collected: By 1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Boar Tooth Animal, Material Conch Shell, Material Bone, Material Cowrie Shell, Process Perforated, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Diameter: max 170 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.13.24
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letter from Leslie Waterfield Shakespear to Henry Balfour dated 24/5/1923 which accompanied the objects sent to the Pitt Rivers Museum and states that 'Each [object] has a little label pinned or gummed to it telling which tribe & locality it hails from.' In the letter, Shakespear also describes the locations of his military service in India. [GI 19/11/2001]