necklace
- Museum number
- Oc.1890
- Description
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Necklace of short reed segments strung onto string. Some segments are incised with markings.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1852)
- Dimensions
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Height: 47.50 centimetres
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Width: 20 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Christy collection registration slip description, written in the 1860s?:
Port Phillip. Victoria, Australia
Aboriginal Necklace made of a number of strings of sections of yellow cane, each section about ¾ in. long.
from Kew, R. Hudson Esq
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Tied-on label, handwritten:-
Necklace made of
cane by the aborigines
of Port Philip --- Australia
R. Hudson Esqr
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Described in Kew Museum Entry Book 1847-1855, p174:
"107 R Hudson Esq September 15th [1852]
Necklace of the Aborigines of Port Phillip - Australia
- made of peices of cane?".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.1890
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1866C1.1890 (old CDMS no.)
