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Cape Cape Cape

The breast ornament is made of tortoiseshell filigree bound onto a polished tridacna shell disc.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cataloguing data

Object type
Breast jewellery
Dimensions
Durchmesser: 10 cm
Material/Technique
Musselshell (Tridacna), Tortoiseshell
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 15163

Provenance and sources

when
before 1897
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
Bismarck Archipelago [Inselgruppe]
New Ireland [Insel]
Gardner [Insel]
Papua New Guinea [Land]

who
Rüdiger - Collectors

Description
Donation from Rüdiger 1897

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