Necklace
- Museum number:
- 5-789
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050000789
- Accession number:
- Acc.977
- Description:
- Cowrie necklace double strand
- Donor:
- University of California African Expedition
- Collection place:
- Ngong, Nairobi, Kenya
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Masai from Nging near Nairobi
- Culture or time period:
- Maasai people
- Collector:
- University of California African Expedition
- Collection date:
- 1947-1948
- Materials:
- Cowrie shell
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Necklaces
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1949
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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