Accession No

E 1908.292


Description

Band of coloured shell beads.


Place

Oceania; Melanesia; Solomon Islands; ?Malaita


Period


Source

Herbert, Robert (Sir) [collector]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

E 1908.292


Cultural Affliation


Material

Shell; Wood; Plant fibre


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for E 1908.290-292: 'Four armlets, viz: a pair of patterned woven grass armlet; and two bands of coloured shell beads, one composed of twelve strands, threaded through thirteen wooden stays, showing a linear pattern, and one 'netted' showing a pattern of lozenges, +c'.
Event Date 1908
Author: Lucie Carreau


Context (References)
Illustrated in Lucie Carreau. 2016. Collections from the Solomon Islands. Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13275, p.58.
Event Date 2016
Author: Lucie Carreau


FM:327546

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