- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Circular necklace made from plaited palm leaf strips. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/2/2006]
- Cultural groups
- Mwila
- 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
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Fibre Plant, Process Plaited, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 220 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.7.227 Other numbers: 37.351
Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament
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