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chest ornament

The chest ornament consists of a round white shell disc with a pierced hole in the centre. A plant fibre cord is threaded through the hole. There is a tortoiseshell overlay on the shell disc.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
Dimensions
General: 0.3 × 4 cm
Material/Technique
Shell disc; tortoiseshell; plant fibre
carved; drilled; knotted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D07334
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D07334

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    New Ireland
  • 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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