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chest ornament

The chest ornament consists of a tricadna disc with a dark, cross-hatched incised pattern on the outer edge of the front. The back is tinted brown. A cord is attached to the outer edge. There is a tortoiseshell overlay in the centre of the disc, which is damaged.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
Dimensions
General: 0.5 x 15.6 cm
Material/Technique
Tridacna snail shell; tortoiseshell; plant fibre carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D06822
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D06822

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Publishing
    Description
    Oceania Collection Voyages - Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/people/Oceania-Collection-Voyages/100083002609221/ (last accessed on: 31/08/2023)
  • 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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