necklace
- Museum number
- Oc1851,0103.159
- Description
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Necklace made of nine melo shells, coconut shell, cord.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Curator's comments
- Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p. 121:
'159. Necklace of 9 milo shells, each having a cocoanut shell ornament attached. From Redscar Bay.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Acquisition notes
- From the HMS Rattlesnake expedition of 1846-1850.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1851,0103.159