Te tumara
human history
Te tumara. Waist ornament of moonshells. This is a waist ornament worn as part of the costume adornment of a Kiribati female dancer. It consists of a single row of tumara (white moon shells) lashed onto plaited kora (cordage of coconut fibre). Each tumara has a hole near the edge for ornamental suspension to lash on the plaited kora. One end of the tumara girdle is knotted, and one is left unknotted. The tumara shells are a natural colour of white with some discolouring across the exterior.
Accession number: 1940.3 Last Update: 12 Jul 2019
- Collection Area
- —
- akm.collections.field_type_title_label
- —
- Te reo Name
- —
- Common Name
- —
- Other Name
-
Waist ornament of moon shells (English)
- Other Name Type
- —
- Description
- —
- Place
- Nonouti/Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
- Associated Place
- —
- Field Collection Place
- —
- Field Collection Site
- —
- Collection Date
- —
- Field Collection Date
- —
- Accession Number
-
1940.3
- Accession Date
-
1940
- Other Id
-
25213 (ethnology)
- Other Id Type
- —
- Department
- Display Room
- —
- Restriction
- —
- Type
- —
12 Images
