Neck ornament of string-work with two pendants of pearl shell sections [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/9/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Neck ornament of string-work with two pendants of pearl shell sections [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/9/2005]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Southern Highlands District Was River Valley
Cultural groups: Wola
Person: Field collector Paul Sillitoe; PRM source Trustees of the British Museum; PRM source British Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1978
Date collected: 1976 - 1978
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1979
Materials and processes: Material Pearl Shell, Material Rope, Material String, Process Perforated, Process Tied, Process Looped, Process Coiled
Dimensions: Length: max 440 mm rope, Length: max 70 mm shells, Width: max 25 mm shells
Object numbers: Accession number: 1979.21.37
Research and responses: For the collector's own description of this type of pearl shell fragment necklace (mondowlaep mael wiy), including the materials used and how they are made, see pages 377 to 378 of Paul Sillitoe (1988), Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua new Guinea (London: British Museum Publications). [ZM 21/6/2016]

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