neck-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.929
- Description
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Neck ornament made of bone (whale?), vegetable fibre, spondylus shell and coconut shell discs. A rectangular carved and polished bone pendant is suspended from three tassels of pink spondylus shell and black coconut shell discs, only one tassel is attached to the pendant. A two-ply twisted vegetable fibre cord has twelve elongated triangular bone pieces regularly interspersed for decoration.
- Production date
- early 19thC (circa 1821)
- Dimensions
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Height: 27 centimetres
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Width: 16 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1983–1986 16 Dec-29 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Pattern of islands: Micronesia yesterday and today
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- Collected during the voyage of the Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue in 1815-1818.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.929
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 2453 (Original Beasley Collection Number)