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Ei. Necklace consisting of pupu (shells) rengarenga (Yellow necklace-shell, Orobophana pacifica), grey-blue ua (seeds) poepoe (Job's Tears, Coix lacryma-jobi) brown pupu raroara (Melampus casteneus) and white/yellow pupu raroara (Melampus flavus). The ua and pupu are bored and strung with purple coloured cotton thread in no apparent set pattern.
Accession number: 1993.134 Last Update: 20 Sept 2018
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Necklace (English)
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- Rarotonga/Cook Islands
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1993.134
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07 Jul 1993
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54585.35 (ethnology)
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