bead
- Museum number
- Am1926,0313.39
- Description
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A long cotton string of red glass beads.
- Production date
- 1800-1820
- Dimensions
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Length: 370 centimetres (approx)
- Curator's comments
- String of European glass beads on European cotton. According to attached label, this string of beads was assembled by a young Inuit ["Esquimaux"] girl who was on board HMS Fury accompanying her sick brother during Parry's expedition 1821.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Attached to card with Am1926,0313.38
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Donated by Parry in 1926 but not registered at time as not of Native manufacture. Restored to collection from duplicates in August 2013 and added to end of Parry registration series.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1926,0313.39