Neck ornament; braided string covered with shell discs supporting a pendant of boar's tusk with 3 strings of red & blue beads with black banana seed terminals. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/12/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Neck ornament; braided string covered with shell discs supporting a pendant of boar's tusk with 3 strings of red & blue beads with black banana seed terminals. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/12/2005]
Long description: Red and white shell discs attached to stringwork to form a necklet with a pendant boar’s tusk. The tusk is decorated at the unpointed end with a cluster of circular shell discs. Where the tusk is attached to the necklet is an oval piece of shell and three strings of red and blue beads, each ending with a ?banana seed. [ZM 13/8/2004]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Person: Field collector Stephen Montagu Burrows; PRM source Isabella Christina (Montagu) Burrows
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1935
Date collected: By 1935
Acquisition information: Donated: 1935
Materials and processes: Material Boar Tooth Animal, Material Shell, Material String, Material Bead, Material Banana Seed Plant, Process Perforated, Process Strung, Process Tied, Process Braided
Dimensions: Diameter: max 96 mm tusk, Length: max 500 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1935.36.120

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