Cf. a similar necklace attributed to Samoa in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart (Heermann, I., and Menter, U., Schmuck der Sdsee, Munich, 1990, p.124, fig.69.2). For another collected on Captain Cook's voyages see Kaeppler, A., Artificial Curiosities, Honolulu, 1978, p.210, fig.423.