dala
- Museum number
- Oc1889,1205.1
- Description
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Dala ornament, being a disk of tridacna-shell overlaid with a fretwork of turtleshell attached by the centre, for the head
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1865)
- Curator's comments
- John Gould Veitch made a collection of Solomon Islands artefacts as botanist on HMS Curacoa in 1865 - on the same voyage as Julius Brenchley (qv) - which his brother Harry gave to the British Museum in 1887.
Register slip reads: Solomon Islands Forehead ornament...No history
Dala is the most common Solomon Islands name for this ornament (resembling the kapkap of Papua New Guinea) which in former times was always worn on the head.
See Burt (2009) 'Body Ornaments of Malaita'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Acquisition notes
- Register slip reads:
PRESENTED BY HARRY J. VEITCH ESQ 1889
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1889,1205.1
