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i Taube Sore ni Sila

human history
  • Ingoa Kōrero Noa
    Adornment
  • Ingoa Kē

    seed ornament (English)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    i Taube Sore ni Sila. Strung and loose fragments of a seed necklace of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi). The seeds are grey in colour. Four lengths of cotton twine are strung with fourty-nine, twenty-six, thirteen, and eight seeds respectively. Five individual seeds are left loose.

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    1930.198
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    23 May 1930
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    4988 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
seeds, 1930.198, 4988, Photographed by Jennifer Carol,… … Read more

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