Description (Physical description)
Rachel Hand description for 1975.175 B-E: 'B has 9 single strand necklaces, C: 3 large strands of grey seeds, with clusters of brown seeds hanging from small grey seed pendants. Only one necklace is joined at the ends. There are also grey and brown seeds loose. E: has small ?oyster type shells, with grey and red seeds. There is also a small piece of irridenscent beetle wing'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card reads, 'Bought in Quito from Indian trader/tourist shop. d. G.W.S.V. Rumble'.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card transcription for 1975.175 A-E: 'a). 12 something brown seed necklaces, single strand. b). 8 grey and brown seed necklaces, single strand. c). 3 large strands of grey and brown. d). Palm seed necklace. e). seed and shell necklace bought in Quito from indian leader/ tourist shop'


Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Rachel Hand: 'There is also a small piece of irridenscent beetle wing'
Event Date 26/6/2000
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Single strand necklace, brown/grey job's tears (Coix lacryma) threaded onto a long piece of twisted plant fibre. Also included sporadically within the job's tears are lengths of feather cartilage, bird bones, a section of vertebrate, shells and larger red/black seeds (Ormosia coccinea). Hanging from the necklace are 19 strands with four job's tears, one ormosia coccinea and either a shell or larger brown seed a the end. One strand also contains an iridescent beetle wing.
Event Date 15/7/2021
Author: Louise Puckett