Accession No
E 1914.20.80
Description
Necklace of bivalve shells suspended on red wool tassels from a incomplete circle of 2 ply twisted red wool and black univalve shells
Place
Asia; South Asia; India; Andaman Islands; Great Andaman
Period
Source
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (Professor) [field collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
E 1914.20.80; MAA: AR 1914.368.80
Cultural Affliation
Material
Shell; Wool; Plant
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. At the time of donation he was known as A.R. Brown and had not added the 'Radcliffe'.
Event Date 1914
Author: maa
Context (Display)
Exhibited in the Early Cambridge Anthropology section of the Introduction to World Anthropology, (Case No. 9), Maudslay Hall, from May 2012
Event Date 4/2012
Author: rachel hand
Description (CMS Description)
Card notes in black ink, [handwritten] 'Necklace' Added later in blue ink, 'of shells'.
Event Date 10/5/2012
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Necklace of bivalve shells suspended on red wool tassels from a incomplete circle of 2 ply twisted red wool and black univalve shells
Event Date 18/1/2022
Author: rachel hand
FM:266543
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