FMNH 210725.nosub[1]

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    Scanner: Grace Apfeld : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | 22-12 | Provenience: West Sudan, possibly Lakoja district; North Nigeria | People or Culture: | Object: Necklace | Material: Glass, shell, twine | Description: Red, yellow, white, and black and white glass beads strung on twine with 6 orders of off-white shell disks, probably ostrich egg shell. Red and yellow beads are round; white and black-and-white beads are oblong. Acc. Fuller: "West Sudan? ?-Lakoja district. North Nigeria" Acquired by Fuller 15 December 1926. | Dimensions: (in cm.) Length double: 28.8 Width: 1.25 | Collection: Fuller Collection: presented by Mrs. A.W.F. Fuller, 16 January 1964. [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 210725 | Field No. | Neg. No. | Acc. 2820 [BACK] [ILLUSTRATION] etc.
Catalog Number: 210725.nosub[1]
Description: necklace
Materials: glass beads, ostrich eggshell, twine
Accession Number: [2820] Mrs. A. W. F. Fuller (Gift)
Accession Year: 1964
District/County: Lakoja
Collector/Source: Mrs. Estelle Fuller, Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller
EMu IRN: 1115929
GUID: 98ae7f67-7abb-49ab-ac8c-4a24a90a8c6c

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