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Ei

human history
  • Other Name

    Seed and shell necklace (English)

  • Description

    Ei. Necklace. Personal adornment 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, one ua poepoe followed by one pupu rengarenga for the entirity of the ei. Ei may be worn looped once. Two of the pupu are coloured red and white.

  • Place
    Cook Islands
  • Accession Number
    1985.347
  • Accession Date
    23 Sep 1985
  • Other Id

    51927.6 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Ei, 1985.347, 51927.6, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 12 Dec 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ei, 1985.347, 51927.6, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 12 Dec 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ei, 1985.347, 51927.6, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 12 Dec 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply

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