Ornament: neck

Museum number:
11-620
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Accession number:
Acc.18 and Acc.25
Description:
Neck ornament of basketry and shells
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Islands Region
Verbatim coll. place:
New Britain
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Shell (animal material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ornaments (object genre)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
December 15, 1901 and November 26, 1901
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1929: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–1945) and S1963-1964 #24: Oakland High School/Milo S. Popovich (October 11, 1963–November 15, 1963)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Ornament: neck, accession number 11-620, described as Neck ornament of basketry and shellsHearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Ornament: neck, accession number 11-620, described as Neck ornament of basketry and shellsHearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Ornament: neck, accession number 11-620, described as Neck ornament of basketry and shells
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament: neck, accession number 11-620, described as Neck ornament of basketry and shells

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