necklace
- Museum number
- Af1960,20.54
- Description
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Register 1960
Hard black seeds, 54 in number, strung on manufactured twine to form a necklace.
- Production date
- 1883 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 28 centimetres
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Length: 37 centimetres (extended)
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Width: 22.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1960
NYASALAND. "Necklace from seeds of Ensete ednle (Jinel.)"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Acquisition notes
- Af1960,20.1 to 246 is a large collection of African material transferred to the British Museum by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1960. Most of these works had been given to Kew in the XIXc, and the recorded provenances refer to those who gave the objects to Kew.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1960,20.54