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ornament, neck
Department PacificAccession Date 20 Oct 1986Display Room Pacific LifewaysAccession Number 1986.241Description Necklaces
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ornament, neck
Department PacificAccession Date 20 Oct 1986Display Room Pacific LifewaysAccession Number 1986.241Description Necklace
Necklace
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'Ula
Department PacificAccession Date 20 Oct 1986Accession Number 1986.241Description 'Ula. Neck ornament. 'Ula is a type of Samoan adornment, worn around the neck. It is worn on special occasions, as part of a dance attire and offered as gifts to family,…
'Ula. Neck ornament. 'Ula is a type of Samoan adornment, worn around the neck. It is worn on special occasions, as part of a dance attire and offered as gifts to family, friends and visitors. This 'ula is made up of sanasana (job's tears plant), pule (gastropod shell) and string. The sanasana are of various shades of off-white whereas the pule are sandy brown in colour. Using a sharp implement, the sanasana are perforated near the lip of each pule, whereas the sanasana naturally formed perforations at either end of the seed. These allow for the pule and sanasana to be strung on an off-white string. For every stringed pule, three sanasana seeds are strung on. This 'ula is not joined together and a pule shell has parted from the 'ula.
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