Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Necklace (worn by both men and women)
- Place of origin
-
Marawaka →
Eastern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Dunkwi (Anga) people
- Year
- collected 1969
- Media category
- Jewellery
- Materials used
- 2-ply plant fibre string, bamboo, red machine-wove cotton fabric, rattan, yellow orchid stem, wood
- Dimensions
-
17.5cm length of pendants; 101.5cm length of cord:
0 - Whole; 2.3cm (7/8"); length of longest bamboo segment
0 - Whole; 15.7cm (6 3/16"); length of longest red fabric pendant
0 - Whole; 4.2 x 2.8cm (1 5/8 x 1 1/8"); wood pendant
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
- Accession number
- 723.1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Truus Daalder (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Ethnic jewellery and adornment: Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa, Adelaide, 2009, 68, 92 (colour illus.). figure no. 128; NOTE: this reproduction is of a similar necklace from the Daalder Collection, Adelaide.
