Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Man's necklace
- Place of origin
-
Tari →
Southern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Huli people
- Year
- collected 1963
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- gold-lipped oyster shell (Pinctada Maxima), 16 cowrie shells, 11 pig tusks, red seeds (probably Adenanthera pavonina), plyed and plaited plant fibre
- Dimensions
-
29.5 x 28.5 x 2.7cm:
0 - Whole; 29.5cm (11 5/8"); from neckband to bottom edge of gold-lipped oyster shell
0 - Whole; 28.5cm (11 1/4"); from tusk to tusk at widest point
0 - Whole; 2.7cm (1 1/16"); approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 657.1979
- Location
- Not on display
