ear-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1976,11.222
- Description
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Dancing ear ornament made of nine black beetle carapaces threaded onto thick vegetable fibre string also attached by fine vegetable fibre thread wound around each forked end.
- Dimensions
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Length: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1976:
Composite ear ornament: nine black beetle exoskeletons threaded onto thick vegetable fibre string also attached by fine vegetable fibre thread wound around each forked end.
222. For dancing.
222-223 IO, GRACIOSA BAY, SANTA CRUZ.
An ethnographical collection formed between September 1975 and January 1976 in the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands by Assistant Keeper Dorota C. Starzecka.
See Eth.Doc. 955; and Photographs (transparencies and black and white prints in Departmental Pictorial Archive).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1976
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased for the British Museum by Dorota C. Starzecka, Assistant Keeper, British Museum Dept. of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind), on a tour of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands between September 1975 and January 1976. (see Eth. Doc. 955 and photos in AOA archive).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1976,11.222
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 256 (Field number)