Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Necklace

Panama

 

Collected by Lilian Mabel Alice Richmond Brown and Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges

Given to the Museum in 1924

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Necklace, Panama

This necklace from Panama is made of glass trade beads and pendants of root. The root pendants were thought to be medicinal. The necklace may therefore have been an amulet, to protect the wearer.

View database record 1924.46.34