Head ornament: a bamboo hoop with perforated white univalve shells bound on with coconut fibre string. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/8/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Head ornament: a bamboo hoop with perforated white univalve shells bound on with coconut fibre string. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/8/2005]
Geographical reference: Tuvalu
Oceania > Polynesia > Tuvalu
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Sarah Constance Silver; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1906
Date collected: By 1906
Acquisition information: Donated: 03/1906
Materials and processes: Material Snail-Shell Animal, Material Bamboo Plant, Material String, Material Coconut Fibre Plant, Material Bark Fibre Plant
Dimensions: Diameter: max 230 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1906.20.7
Research and responses: Natica is a snail. [CF 15/11/99]
In terms of size, and by comparison with 1884.73.34, this is more likely to be a head ornament than a neck ornament. Likewise the material of the hoop is probably bamboo. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/8/2005]

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