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NHM-HT.155-2014

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Object number

NHM-HT.155-2014

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Description

Ostrich egg beaded bracelet, white and black beads

Comments

Display label:
'41. Kalahari Bushman ostrich egg bracelet, necklace and decorated egg. The egg holds a litre and
was my daily water ration. The necklace is 6.3 metres long. Both weigh about the same.
Gemsbok National Park, Botswana 1980'

Description

Material

shell

Materials & techniques note

Egg shell

Production

Place

Africa

History and association

References

• Hanbury-Tenison, R., Beauty Freely Given: A Universal Truth. Artefacts from the Collection of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Garage Press, 2012 (p. 41)
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