- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Neck ornament; hornbill beak (with traces of red pigment) and 6 boars' tusks joined by loops of plaited string onto a double string. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/12/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Southern Highlands Province
- Cultural groups
- Huli
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1980
- Date collected
- By 1980
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Pig Tooth Animal, Material Hornbill Beak Bird, Material Plant Fibre, Material String, Material Pigment, Material Boar Tooth Animal, Process Twisted, Process Braided, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 350 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.3.4
Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament
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