shell ring
- Museum number
- Oc.9139
- Description
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Breast ornament, formed of a ring of tridacna shell, suspended by a crimson braid (vegetable fibre).
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1875)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19 centimetres
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Width: 14 centimetres
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Depth: 2.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Shell ring pendants of this kind were worn in the New Georgia group and Isabel.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.9139
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1875C1.9139 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1875C0203
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1980,Q.375