Necklace

Item

Title

Necklace

Creator

Unrecorded

Description

Physical Description: Beaded tubular rope necklace, consisting of bands of yellow, red, white, blue beads with single strand of black inbetween each section, with one pink row of beads at each end.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

Pre 1917

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Whole: 335 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm

Beadwork

Identifier

R1736/5

Source

This item is listed as donated to Brighton Museum by the then curator, Herbert Samuel Toms, in 1917. The other items in the donation are local archaeology and there is no explanation of why this item from Bechuanaland is included in the group.
Toms was an archaeologist and Curator of the Brighton Museum from 1896 to 1939, previously he had worked as an excavation assistant with Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers.

Herbert Samuel Toms

Pre 1917