pendant
- Museum number
- Oc1927,1003.15
- Description
-
Pendant of a carved piece of cone shell with a central hole.
- Dimensions
-
Height: 8 centimetres
-
Width: 4 centimetres
-
Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
-
Tied-on manilla label, handwritten in black ink:
1444 1444
fakalua
Reverse:
TC 178
S. F5
SOLOMONS
57
-
Wheeler's catalogue ETHNOGRAPHICA FROM ALU AND MONO (Eth.Doc.1096) reads:
57. fakalua. A breast-ornament: Alu and Buim fashion. made by Bisigoi, a man of Faleta. Worn by women and children in everyday life, and used to be so worn by men (but since the coming of the white man, more especially for dancing); is worn on the breast hung on a string round the neck. Made of matuala shell with a file, having first been ground on stone. The matuala is a conical shell; only the hard whitish circle at the bottom is used. Names of parts of this ornament are:- soropa, tarakatana, keti.
Note sheet number: 1444.Ref.Tf.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Acquisition notes
- Gerald C Wheeler was an anthropologist who researched in Solomon Islands in 1908 to 1909 on an expedition with W. H. R. Rivers and A. M. Hocart. He began on Simbo but spent most of his time on Alu. He gave collections of artefacts to the British Museum in 1927, registered as Oc1927.0310 and Oc1927.1003 and documented in Eth Doc 1096.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1927,1003.15
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: 57 (Wheeler catalogue in Eth Doc 1096)
-
Previous owner/ex-collection number: 1444 (Original collector(?) number)