- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- ?Ear ornament, circular hard wood core encircled by a section of ? amboo stem. There is a small amount of incised lineal decoration - lozenge shaped and an empty socket, possibly for a boar tusk. [BS [OPS Move] 25/11/2016]
- Geographical reference
- West Papua
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1966
- Date collected
- By 1966
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Bamboo Plant, Process Incised, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Diameter 68 mm, Height 50 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.544
Search terms: Ornament, Ear Ornament
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