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jewellery

The jewellery consists of an elongated piece made from braided plant fibres. This part is decorated with small snails. There are dog teeth at the lower end.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
Jewellery
Dimensions
General: 2.5 × 5.5 × 20 cm folded
Material/Technique
Wet snail; plant fibre; dog tooth
drilled; rope work
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09363
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09363

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1907
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
  • 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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