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Necklace

Object Number:31-2-182
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Bushmen
Provenience: Botswana
Section:African
Materials:Eggshell
Cane (plant)
Fiber
Length: 170 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, 1931

Description

Double string of ostrich eggshell discs, sections of cane(?), black trade beads and a flat brown seed.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

44 Eyes in a Museum Storeroom ( Dec 2000 - 2001) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Article] Wieschhoff, H. A. 1945. "The African Collections of The University Museum: Introduction". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 11. no. 1-2. pg. 7-8 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 12, fig. 3View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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