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chest ornament

The chest ornament consists of a tridacna shell with a partially cross-hatched incised pattern on the outer edge of the front. The tortoiseshell overlay on the front is pierced and there is a hole in the centre.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
Dimensions
General: 0.5 × 10 × 10 cm
Material/Technique
Shell disc; tortoiseshell, plant fibre
carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D06824
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D06824

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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