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necklace

The necklace is made of wavy plant fibres that are studded with many white nassa snails. There is a pendant made of blue glass beads in the middle of the chain.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
necklaces
Dimensions
General: 0.7 × 2.6 × 39.5 cm
Material/Technique
Vegetable fibre; wet snail; glass bead
braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D03285
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D03285

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Arnold Fabricius - Former Possessors
    Arnold Fabricius - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
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