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Object Number
00-8-70/55460
Display Title
Bead necklace with tortoise shell pendant
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Necklace, woven fiber strand with pink shell beads, tortoise shell pendants
Classification
- Necklace
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Marshall Islands
Additional Geographic Terms
Rongelab
Materials
Shell, Tortoiseshell, Plant fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 18.6 x 7.8 x 0.8 cm (7 5/16 x 3 1/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
55460; 111-44
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(01/1900)
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(01/1900)
Collector
U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition
(01/1900)
Donor
Donated by
Alexander Agassiz
(1900)
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