Necklace - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 98273 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Echinochloa stagnina | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Necklace | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Gambia | TDWG Region | Gambia | ||
| Parts Held | Necklace | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | NecklaceUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Smith, Ruth | Donor No | 37 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Bought at African Museum, Smithsonian | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1996 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Gold coloured straw work necklace from grass stems possibly imitating gold work. [Article by Anne Dyer in Archiv für Volkerkunde 61/62: 159-181 (2013) discusses African wax and straw jewellery and ,for Mali, burgu grass - Echinochloa stagnina - is suggest, ed as the source; this species occurs in Gambia too, so is an unconfirmed possibility.] | ||||