Description (CMS Description)
Necklace formed of a pendant of conus shell with a large central perforation, four very small perforation at each 'corner' and two perforations for suspension at the top. The cord is attached to the top hole. It is finely plaited from red-dyed ?orchid fibre.
Event Date 23/9/2015
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: '1917.82.' and 'Z 6277' inscribed in black ink on the object. '1917.82' inscribed in pencil on the other side.
Event Date 23/9/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Small clam shell breast ornament. The plaited grass neck cord is attached. [added later:] Flat plate with central perforation'.
Event Date 23/9/2015
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Register notes for 1917.74-85 'Collected by Lieut.t Harrington [sic] Martin, R.N., 1873/ Given by his sister Miss Caroline Martin'. The term 'late' has been added in pencil to the collector's name for the subsequent page of material from 1917.79- 87.

Lieut. John Harington Martin, R.N., served on H.M.S. Dido on the Australia Station 1872- 1875. His name has been variously written and mis-transcribed as Marten and Harrington.

Event Date 8/10/2020
Author: rachel hand