necklet (neck ornament (personal adornment))

Necklace or string of Shell money comprising low value white and higher value red shell discs interspersed with some spacers of coconut shell and transverse bars of turtle shell. There are a total of five strings in the necklace.

Old label reads: Ascension Isld. N. Pacific.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
6.195
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall (as worn): 290 mm x 200 mm x 5 mm; overall (outstretched): 720 mm x 24 mm x 5 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
shell; tortoiseshell; coconut; plant fibre
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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