breast-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc,+.2276
- Description
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Breast-ornament made of a concave piece of white melo shell. Centre is perforated and decorated with a disc of coconut shell with serrated circumference and a smaller disc of white shell. From this is attached with fibre cord a banana seed and two tassels of red glass beads. There are twisted fibre ties
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1882)
- Dimensions
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Length: 14 centimetres
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Width: 11.50 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Christy Correspondence
Note (probably by the Rev Gill) '2 baskets (fitting one inside the other), 1 breast ornament, 3 wrist ornaments'. All from S.E. New Guinea.' Presented by A W Franks Ap. 1884, Rev. W. Wyatt Gill 1882.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1884
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.2276
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1884C2.2276 (old CDMS no.)
