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Description: | Leglet or chaplet of freshwater snail and cockle shells, consisting of a string of vegetable fibre on which are hung numerous black snail shells. Where the strings join two tassels have been attached which consist of two lengths of twined cord bound together. On each tassel hangs a cockle shell.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 10.139 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | leg ornaments shell cockle shell vegetable fibre | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-55825 | Go to resource |
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