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Akokamye - necklace of 100 snake vertebrae
Object number: Z 12352
Description: Akokamye. Necklace of snake bone.
Cultural sub-group: Aviele
Town: Agbede
Measurements: 24 cm long, 8.6 cm wide, 0.8 cm high
Ile te - necklace of 225 shell beads
Object number: Z 11848
Description: Ile te. Necklace made of numerous small pieces of bone, each piece carefully cut thin.
Cultural sub-group: Aviele
Town: Agbede
Measurements: 40.5 cm long, 6 cm wide, 1.3 cm high
Glass bead necklace
Object number: Z 12405
Description: Necklace of very small native beads in three spirally wound chains.
Cultural sub-group: Yekhee
Town: Ijeba/Kukuruku/Uzebba
Measurements: 22 cm long, 6.5 cm wide, 0.8 cm high
Ukulubu seed necklace
Object number: Z 12472
Description: Necklace made from the seeds of the Ukulubu tree.
Cultural sub-group: Yekhee
Town: Ijeba/Kukuruku/Uzebba
Measurements: 44 cm long, 3 cm wide, 0.3 cm high
Necklace of snake bone
Object number: Z 12534
Description: Necklace of snake bone each section being rough with points.
Cultural sub-group: Yekhee
Town: Ijeba/Kukuruku/Uzebba
Measurements: 33 cm long, 10 cm wide, 1.2 cm high
Wooden beaded necklace
Object number: Z 12648
Description: Necklace of bored pieces of wood.
Cultural sub-group: Yekhee
Town: Ijeba/Kukuruku/Uzebba
Measurements: 17.2 cm long, 5 cm wide, 0.5 cm high
Wooden and glass beaded necklace
Object number: Z 12717
Description: Necklace of carefully shaped round cylinders of wood with two beads and three ovals of wood.
Cultural sub-group: Yekhee
Town: Ijeba/Kukuruku/Uzebba
Measurements: 33 cm long, 3.3 cm wide, 1 cm high
Ojo - necklace of bone beads
Object number: Z 12822
Description: Ojo. Necklace made of sections of bone, each cut in shape of a cylindrical bone. Coloured red.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 21 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, 1.2 cm high
Eobili - necklace of Job's tearsw (otuota) seeds
Object number: Z 12988
Description: Eobili. Necklace of otuota seeds.
Cultural sub-group: Okpe
Town: Okpe
Measurements: 31.5 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, 0.5 cm high
Collar
Object number: Z 13386
Description: Plain brass collar.
Cultural sub-group: Ghotuo
Town: Otua/Otwa/Otuo
Measurements: 16 cm long, 16.5 cm wide, 2 cm high
Collar
Object number: Z 13400
Description: Omare. Collar of wrought brass with prominent midrib. The metal has split almost in half.
Cultural sub-group: Ghotuo
Town: Otua/Otwa/Otuo
Measurements: 17 cm long, 20 cm wide, 6 cm high
