Context (Related Documents)
Wellcome Museum Label reads: 'Plaited string necklet with three copper amulets attached, Peru.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Original description for Z 29609[A-H]: 'Beads; also one wooden ?whistle. One strand large beads of stone, pottery, shell and electron. Three strands small black cylindrical ?bone or shell beads with interspersed coloured ones. One has a bird-like head as centrepiece. Two strands reddish ?bone beads, one has two carved mother-of-pearl pendants with zigzag edges. Two plaited string necklets with pear-shaped copper amulet.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Plaited necklet or necklace made of dyed plant fibre with three drop-shaped copper amulets, one now missing. Plaited fibre is red and yellow with dark maroon section of fibre wrapped around the middle; copper amulet at one end and a smaller one near the middle.
Event Date 13/12/2024
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller