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Cape Cape Cape

The breast ornament is made of tortoiseshell filigree bound onto a polished tridacna shell disc. Source: Note on the old index card: carving VI 42317 is attached to disc VI 11237 b, as its disc is broken

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Breast jewellery
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 12,6 x 12,6 x 1 cm
Material/Technique
Musselshell (Tridacna), Tortoiseshell
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 42317

Provenance and sources

where
Melanesia [Großregion]
New Ireland [Insel]

who
Anna Merk-Ikier - Former Possessors

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