- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Unmounted pearl-shell cut into half-moon shape, with fibre string for suspension. [El.B 15/09/2011]
- Cultural groups
- Melpa
- Person
- Field collector Andrew Jamieson Strathern
- Field collector Ann Marilyn Strathern
- PRM source Andrew Jamieson Strathern
- PRM source Ann Marilyn Strathern
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1965
- Date collected
- 1964 - 1965
- Acquisition information
- Exchanged: 1968
- Materials and processes
- Material Pearl Shell, Material Plant Fibre, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 161 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1968.7.2
Search terms: Ornament, Breast Ornament
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