currency;
bead
- Museum number
- Oc1922,1009.10
- Description
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Currency, string of beads made of shell, coconut shell, sinnet.
- Dimensions
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Height: 1882 centimetres
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Width: 0.50 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 1922 register description: 'Shell & coconut shell discoid beads, strung on sinnet alternately.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Acquisition notes
- Letter from the donor dated May 25th [1922] states that the artefacts from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands were collected between 1893-95.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1922,1009.10