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Ornament (described as a breast ornament in the original description) made of a slightly concave, almost circular piece of white shell (identified as melo shell in the original documentation) overlaid with a smaller circular piece of coconut shell with a toothed circumference, overlaid with a smaller white shell disc, and then overlaid with a smaller pink shell oval disc. The four pieces are perforated through their centres and held together with a vegetable fibre cord.
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