Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: a small label attached to the object reads: 'Z 11220' in black ink. An old museum label glued to the catalogue card reads: 'E 1908.287. / Necklace / Solomon Is. / (Bt Sir Robert Herbert’s sale) / Purchased, 1908.'
Event Date 18/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Necklace formed of thin rings of white shell (likely to be of the gastropod kind) attached with twisted string to a fine plait of ?orchid stem fibre dyed red. A couple of shells are missing. Similar to 1939.205.
Event Date 18/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for Z 11220: 'Necklace of small clam shell rings bound to a strip of plaited reed by sinnet nicely sawn.'
Event Date 18/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for E 1908.287: 'Necklace' and [added later:] 'a string of graduated & overlapping narrow white shell rings'.
Event Date 18/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau