necklace
- Museum number
- Oc1888,0416.9
- Description
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Necklace made of vegetable leaf, fibre, spondylus shell, turtle-shell, coconut shell and clam (?) shell. Four carved and polished turtle-shell pendants are suspended from four strings of pink spondylus, white clam and black coconut shell discs. These discs are attached to a natural and dyed black vegetable fibre plaited band using a two-ply twisted vegetable fibre cord. Carved pink spondylus shell discs edge the fibre band.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)-19thC(late) (before 1888)
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.50 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Old museum label adhered to reverse of ornament:
'WALLIS IS (UWEA)
N.E. of FIJI'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1983–1986 16 Dec-29 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Pattern of islands: Micronesia yesterday and today
1989-1993 London, Museum of Mankind, Treasures of the ethnographic collections
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1888,0416.9
