- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sample of lead used in making ornaments of Conus shell, to plug the centre perforation of the shell head; stored inside a small glass bottle with a red lid. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/6/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Kwanyama
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- 1936 - 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Dimensions
- Height: max 63 mm bottle
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.7.126 Other numbers: 36.2613
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