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necklace

The necklace is made of plant fibre cords. Several snail shells are attached in three places. The cords are also decorated with small shells.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
necklaces
Dimensions
General: 20 × 3 × 42 cm
Material/Technique
Snail shell; plant fibre; wet snail
braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09388
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09388

Provenance and sources

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

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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