Necklace - Specimen details

Necklace - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 98113

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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
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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

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