Description (Labels & Markings)
Large, typed label attached by twine reads: 'East Africa. Shell discs and hide. 1909.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Necklace (part of) formed of shell discs, pieces of hide and a blue bead.'
Event Date 1927
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Necklace of shell discs and hide, and a single blue glass bead at one end.
Event Date 9/11/2012
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
A long string of ostrich eggshell beads were found attached to 1927.282. It does not appear to be part of 1927.282, but has two labels attached, one which suggests it may have come from Ridgeway, and another with a five digit number which may be an Oldman number. It has now been assigned a temp number, TEMP.01737.
Event Date 4/4/2022
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Analysis)
The hide strips come from at least two different animals, one with relatively smooth skin and light coloured hair, the other with more scaly skin and stiff dark and light hairs.
Event Date 4/4/2022
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
String of shell beads, hide and a glass bead said to be part of a necklace. 73 disc-shaped ostrich eggshell beads alternating with three strips of hide; one cylindrical blue glass bead at one end.
Event Date 4/4/2022
Author: Katrina Dring