Ornament
- Description
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A flat section of slate, with an incised and painted design on each surface, hung on fishing line threaded with seed beads. Shown here is the face depicting the national emblem of Papua New Guinea, a bird of paradise astride a quiver and arrow.
Collected in the 1960s. - Accession Loan No.
- 36/2000/1
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Common Name
- ornament
- Simple Name
- necklace
- Full Name
- shell necklace
- Dimensions
- whole exc beads height 134 mm; whole width 163 mm
- Production Year High
- 2000
- Production County
- Highlands
- Production Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Production Area Region
- Melanesia
- Production Continent
- Oceania
- Family Group
- Material
- slate like mineral; seeds; nylon
- Function Name
- personal ornament souvenir (tourism)
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Collection Continent
- Pacific
