Necklace; Spondylus shell disc beads; clam shell discs; length 48 cm Red shell disk breads (Spondylus), 6 white shell disk beads, 6 banana seeds on fibre string with cowrie shell pendant with 16 blue glass and 8 white glass beads attached.
Donor:
Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Massim region, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Massim
Collector:
Bronislaw Malinowski and Bruce D. Lawes
Collection date:
1914-1920
Materials:
Seashell
Taxon:
Spondylus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1974-1975 #32: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (November 7, 1974–November 8, 1974), S1975-1976 #74: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 14, 1976–April 14, 1976), S1985-1986 #47: Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale Univ.) (April 1, 1986–July 31, 1986), S1985-1986 #48: Jagiellonian University, Poland (October 1, 1986–March 31, 1987), S1985-1986 #49: Warsaw Museum of Asia and the Pacific (1987–1987), S1985-1986 #9: Arizona State Museum (September 20, 1985–February 7, 1986), and S2002-2003 #9: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (December 20, 2002–April 7, 2003)