Collection
Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Mounted pearl shell for 'Moka' exchange
- Other titles:
- Breast ornament
- Place of origin
-
Mount Hagen →
Western Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Melpa people
- Year
- collected 1967
- Media category
- Ceremonial object
- Materials used
- gold-lipped pearl shell (Pinctada maxima), tree resin, red ochre pigment, bamboo
- Dimensions
-
36.0 x 30.5 x 2.5cm
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Accession number
- 319.1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art 1973, Domain, 1973, 54. cat.no. H158
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
