Context (CMS Context)
(Bio): Miss Joyce Baker is the daughter of Reverend H.J. Baker who was a Methodist missionary to the Mashona tribe, in the early twentieth century, (1904-1919), in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Necklace charm of light blue, light green, and white ?plastic beads. With four small antelope horn pendants (probably from different species), a tubular bone pendant, and two spiky globular seeds, all suspended from a hide string. Condition: good- shows evidence of use with accretions over surface.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 'Methodist Who's Who' (n.d. ?1912/1913) notes Rev. H. J. Baker as Herbert John Baker, a pioneer missionary in Rhodesia, who worked at the Matabeleland Gold Mines, as Master of the Public School, Selukwe and then in Mashonaland.
The material was all identified as Mashona on entry to the Museum but may also have been been acquired in Matabeleland or Selukwe, now known as Shurugwi.

Event Date 15/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
A necklace consisting of a string of leather with white, green, blue and red beads, four small antelope horns, tube of bone, and two seeds with spikes. Fastened with knots.
Event Date 14/2/2023
Author: Emily Shorter

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2023.5761 | Freezing
Event Date 19/7/2023
Author: Ayesha Fuentes