- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ornament; disc of white Tridacna shell with hatched triangles around the outer edge, overlaid with turtleshell with openwork designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/11/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Bismarck Archipelago Admiralty Islands
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1954
- Materials and processes
- Material Turtleshell Reptile, Material Tridacna Clam Shell, Material Plant Fibre, Process Filigree, Process Incised, Process Openwork, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 83 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1954.8.121 Other numbers: 4183
Search terms: Ornament
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