Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 handwritten in black ink.'. 'Torre St.' [Added later] ‘Stores’ handwritten in pencil, with a small red sticker in lower right hand corner.
Catalogue card 2, side 1, notes the provenance as 'Torres Strait (Mer?)', and collected by 'A.C. Haddon (1898?)', the local name, 'seserig', and use ‘worn only by women and girls’. Also gives bibliographic details for the Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expeditions to the Torres Strait Vol. 4: 41. Pl. XI. Stamped with date of transcription to computerised catalogue, ‘CUMAA/ 20 NOV 1986/ TRANSCRIBED’
Catalogue card 2 side 2 notes measurements:
A- L: 57; B:1.2; T:0.7;
B- L:47; B:0.3; T:0.3. These may not correspond with the current numbering system as A and B were difficult to identify, and there are currently 8 necklaces/sections, with an additional fragment, now numbered A-I.
Catalogue card 2, side 2, also notes: ‘Box marked “old dogs teeth necklace." With three black and white photographs attached of the aforementioned best preserved examples, though it is not clear which objects these now correspond to.
Event Date 20/11/1986
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Accession Register notes '7 ['6' crossed out] necklaces of dogs' teeth.'
Catalogue card 1, [handwritten in black ink] notes '7 necklaces of dogs’ teeth.'
Catalogue card 2, side 2, notes: 'Remains of seven necklets. Teeth drilled and bound into ochred woven coconut fibre bands. Measurements taken of two best-preserved examples. Condition poor, braiding mostly disintegrating.'
Event Date 20/11/1986
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
B & C have obvious ochre set into the plant fibre base and may actually be part of the same object, [?numbered B in the black and white photograph]. A, H & G, have red patterned cotton cloth attached. E with fragments of red thread sewn throughout the fibre base. I is probably a fragment of one of the other necklaces.
Event Date 28/11/2012
Author: maa