- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cylindrical lip plug made from wood and roughly covered with a layer of aluminium.
- Cultural groups
- Masana
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1914
- Date collected
- By 1914
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1914
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Aluminium Metal, Process Recycled, Process Beaten
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 20 x 42 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1914.26.157
- Research and responses
Banana - Ethnologue suggests that the more appropriate form is Masana [AP 05/07/2005]
Search terms: Ornament, Lip Ornament
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