Beaded shell ornament
- Museum number:
- 5-1538
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050001538
- Accession number:
- Acc.1308
- Description:
- Beaded Neck ornament, white, yellow, green, blue and 7 cowrie, 122" 309.88cm circumference Made during pre-Boer war period.
- Donor:
- Mrs. Henley Miller
- Collection place:
- Johannesburg, Gauteng province, Republic of South Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Johannesburg, South Africa Nguni or Tswana
- Culture or time period:
- Nguni
- Collector:
- Emily Hussey
- Materials:
- Shell (animal material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Beads (pierced objects)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1960
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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