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Object Number 99-12-70/53636
Display Title Bead necklace
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, three rows of discoidal shell beads on finely twisted fiber cord
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Federated States of Micronesia
Additional Geographic Terms Caroline Islands
Dimensions Overall: 18 x 1.9 x 0.6 cm (7 1/16 x 3/4 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 53636
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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