Necklet of lacquered rattan, with pivoting front piece of 24 carat gold, fine silver and coloured lacquer: Japan, by Nakayama Aya, 1991

Necklet of 20 circular woven white hair beads, created from pinched sections of woven hair tubing, with 4 enameled metal beads set at regular intervals: European, mid 19th century

Woman's necklet of woollen braid with pendant square charm-packets of cloth, and shells suspended by strings of beads, worn by a nun, personal use: Tibet

Necklet of four wild boar tusks united by strips of cane through a flat wooden rectangle bearing two carnelian beads mounted on squares of white shell, worn by warriors: Assam, probably Lhota Naga

Necklet comprising a torque made of two pairs of curved boar's tusks, worn as a symbol of manhood: Assam, Ao Naga

Necklet of silver, penannular with returned ends, with a depending tablet or charm inscribed in Chinese, worn as a protection against evil spirits: Southeast Asia, Laos, north of Luang Prabang, Miao, late 19th century

Necklet consisting of a narrow strip of hide covered with dyed porcupine quills with the ends split into strings and whipped with quills: North America, Plains

Necklet of human teeth and red glass beads strung on twine: North Africa, Egyptian and Eastern Sudan, Upper Nile

Necklet of nine sperm whale teeth tied to sinnet: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Necklet of sperm whale tooth ground down and polished into curved pointed pendants, perforated and strung on sinnet cord, worn by chiefs: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th - early 20th century

Necklet of four strands of plaited vegetable fibre, ornamented with small white and red beads, and with a small valve of a pecten shell as a pendant: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Necklet of vegetable fibre, ornamented with rows of red and white beads, and with a small red pecten shell as a pendant: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Necklet of plaited vegetable fibre, ornamented with white beads and with flat, oval pendant of white shell: Polynesia, Fiji and Solomon Islands

Necklet of red and green feathers with ties of sennit: Pacific Peoples, French Polynesia, Austral Islands

Chief's necklet of sinnet, human hair and whale bone, some of the pendants representing stool tops and testicles, both of which symbolize attributes of rank and virility: Polynesian, from Mangaia, Cook Islands, 18th century

Man's necklet of triangular pieces of ivory and glass beads: Africa, Southern Africa, Zambia, Tanganyika Plateau, Awemba Country, late 19th century