Wheel-shaped pendant of coix seeds on a wooden ring bound with string. Worn during mourning. [JC 18 1 2002]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wheel-shaped pendant of coix seeds on a wooden ring bound with string. Worn during mourning. [JC 18 1 2002]
Long description: Description taken from Conservation Card by Heather Richardson 01/02/2002 - Wheel-shaped pendant of coix seeds on a wooden ring bound with string. Wheel shaped ornament worn during mourning. Wood ring substrate bound with plant fibre twine with two strings of coix seeds forming a cross through the centre and a ring of coix seeds around the outside. One additional strand of seeds across one quadrant. (Heather Richardson 01/02/2002)
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Oro Province Ijivitari District Collingwood Bay
Person: Field collector William Henry Abbot; PRM source Edward Gerrard and Sons
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1901
Date collected: By 1901
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1901
Materials and processes: Material Coix Seed Plant, Material String, Material Wood Plant, Process Bound
Object numbers: Accession number: 1901.65.44

Search terms: Ornament, Death

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