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Object Number 26-53-70/D2688
Display Title Necklace of hair cordage and cypria shells
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, multiple strands of twisted dark hair, seventeen brown speckled shells of varying sizes, shells tied to hair with fiber cordage
Classification
  • Necklace
  • Shaft, modified
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Pidunga
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / Kimberley
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia
Additional Geographic Terms near Derby
Dimensions Overall (hair cordage extended): 102 × 12 × 2.3 cm (40 3/16 × 4 3/4 × 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D-2688
Provenance
Collector E. Clement (1926)
Seller Unknown (1926)

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