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Te mwae te nikabono

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    Neck ornament of conus shell (English)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    Te mwae te nikabono. Neck ornament of conus shells. This te mwae (Neck ornament) consists of 15 nouo (conus shells) segments strung onto light brown te kora (coconut sennit) and tied together at the ends. Each segment has been sliced off from the base of the nouo shell creating a flat disc shape that is slightly convex on the outer surface and has the raised spiral ridges of the shell visible on the reverse side.

    The nouo shells are off-white in colour with natural dark spiralled speckling. Several of the nouo have a hole at their centre. A perforation at the side edge of each of these shells has been drilled for te kora to thread through.

  • Wāhi
    Tabiteuea/Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
  • Accession Number
    1936.295
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    1936
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    24103 (ethnology)

    232 (Maude Collection)

  • Wāhanga

    Pacific

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  • Te mwae te nikabono, 1936.295, 24103, 232, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te mwae te nikabono, 1936.295, 24103, 232, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te mwae te nikabono, 1936.295, 24103, 232, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te mwae te nikabono, 1936.295, 24103, 232, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te mwae te nikabono, 1936.295, 24103, 232, Cultural Permissions Apply

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