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Qato ni Taba

human history
  • Other Name

    Armlet (English)

  • Description

    Qato ni Taba. Armlet. Made from Trochus shell, circular in shape, and mostly a pearly off-white in colour. There are crimson and brown coloured markings across an area of the Qato ni Taba. The Qato ni Taba is decorated across the exterior surface with seven groups of four dark brown coloured incisions, both vertically placed as well as incised at an angle.There is another group of five decoratively incised lines, dark brown in colour, and vertically placed.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    14829.1 (ethnology)

    O133 (Edge-Partington)

  • Department
ornament, 14829.1, O133, Photographed by Jennifer Carol,… … Read more

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