Turtleshell ornament edged with boars’ tusks and covered with red and black seeds. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 24/08/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Turtleshell ornament edged with boars’ tusks and covered with red and black seeds. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 24/08/2010]
Long description: Turtleshell ornament edged with boars’ tusks and covered with red and black seeds. At the bottom of the turtleshell is a piece of spathe decorated with red feathers. The turtleshell has a horizontal band of red Abrus seeds with two upturned circular shells in the centre. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 24/08/2010]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Central Province
Person: Field collector Miss E.E. Gage-Brown; PRM source Miss E.E. Gage-Brown
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1933
Date collected: By 1933
Acquisition information: Donated: 1933
Materials and processes: Material Turtleshell Reptile, Material Boar Tooth Animal, Material Abrus Precatorius Seed Plant, Material Shell, Material Plant Spathe, Material Bird Feather, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Split, Process Covered, Process Decorated
Dimensions: Width: max 240 mm, Length: max 250 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1933.40.24
Research and responses: According to Ethnologue, Koiari is a language spoken in the Central Province of Papua New Guinea, from east of Port Moresby to the coast. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 19/01/2011]

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