breast-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc,EP.60
- Description
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Breast ornament made of pearl-shell, with twisted vegetable fibre cord. Small coconut fibre loops threaded through three perforations along top edge of shell.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19 centimetres
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Width: 20 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Old parchment (?) tied-on label, handwritten : 'Marquesas'. Reverse - crossed out 'Sandwich Islands'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Acquisition details unknown.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,EP.60
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc????D25.60 (old CDMS no.)