Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the George Arnold Museum (Gravesend, England); acquired by British anthropologist and collector Alfred Walter Francis Fuller (1882-1961) at the sale of the George Arnold collection in 1911; acquired by William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949, who did business as "W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London") in 1912 from Alfred Walter Francis Fuller; purchased by George Heye from W.O. Oldman in 1913.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Inuit (attributed)
- Previous owner
- George Arnold Museum
- Previous seller
- Alfred Walter Francis Fuller (A.W. Fuller/A.W.F. Fuller), Non-Indian, 1882-1961
- Previous owner
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Seller
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- MAI agent
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Object Name
- Necklace
- Media/Materials
- Bird bone/bones, sinew
- Techniques
- Strung
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
