Necklace - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 98113 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Cocos nucifera | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Necklace | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Kenya | TDWG Region | Kenya | ||
| Parts Held | Necklace | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | NecklaceUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Smith, Ruth | Donor No | 108 | ||
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| Notes: | Palm disks from coco shell (endocarp). x0Dx0ANote from Ruth Smith's Botanical Beads of the World http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_100.html: The Yoruba string thin disks of coconut shell together, making a strand they believe resembles the powerful body, of a python. At one time Nigerian chiefs and their families were the only ones permitted to wear the disk-shell necklaces, which they wore in strands of three.4 | ||||