necklet
- Museum number
- Oc1929,0112.14
- Description
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Necklet made of coloured glass beads, with fibre ties.
- Production date
- 1929 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37 centimetres
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Width: 14.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a discussion about trade and use of shell beads in northern Australia, see:
D. Wesley and M. Litster 'Small, individually nondescript and easily overlooked': Contact beads from northwest Arnhem Land in an Indigenous-Macassan-European hybrid economy'. Australian Archaeology 80 June 2015:pp.1-16.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1929,0112.14