Necklace (English)

Ei. Necklace consisiting of small white and orange/brown coloured spiral shaped land snail pupu (shells), (Rarotonga Partula snail, Partula assimilis). The pupu are bored and strung through their wider ends with nylon taura tautai (fishing wire). The pupu are strung on alternating sides of the tautai, alternating in groups of 6-10 off-white coloured pupu and 6-10 orange pupu forming a colour pattern in the ei.

51927.8 (ethnology)

Pacific