Ei
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Ei. Necklace consisting of blue-grey ua (seeds) poepoe (Job's Tears, Coix lacryma-jobi) and pupu rengarenga (Yellow necklace-shell, Orobophana pacifica shell). The ua and pupu are bored and threaded on nylon taura tautai (fishing line). The ei is threaded in a pattern of five ua poepoe followed by one pupu rengarenga for the entirity of the ei. Ei can be worn looped once.
Accession number: 1985.347 Last Update: 20 Sept 2018
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Necklace (English)
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- Place
- Cook Islands
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1985.347
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23 Sep 1985
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51927.7 (ethnology)
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