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ornament, neck

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    chest ornament

    dafe

  • Kupu whakaahua

    chest ornament, pearl shell crescent shaped

  • Wāhi
    South Malaita/Malaita/Solomon Islands
  • Accession Number
    1989.75
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    08 May 1989
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    53229 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga

    Pacific

Mātātuhi me ngā tuhinga

Taonga

  • Rārangi Mihi
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1989.75, 53229
  • Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana

    Made in the late twentieth century, this dafe maintains all the features of old traditional forms. A small frigate bird motif carved in turtle shell is attached to the polished gold lip pearl shell crescent, which is worn suspended around a man’s neck by the cord of shell money discs.

    This cord of shell money was probably made at Auki, a small island off the south-west coast of Malaita, which has long been the centre of currency making by women who cut, drill and polish the red Spondylus shells.

  • Takenga ā-Ahurea

    Malaita/Solomon Islander

  • Kaiwaihanga Matua

     unknown

  • Wāhi
    South Malaita/Malaita/Solomon Islands
  • Rā
    Unknown
  • Pāoho

    spondylus/seashell/shell

    [fibre]

    tortoise shell/animal material

    mother of pearl

  • Whakaahuatanga Ine
    length 590mm
    69 x 185mm height x width x depth/length
  • Raraunga Ine

    590mm

    69mm

    185mm

  • Taumata whakarōpū

    Ornament, Chest

    Body Adornment

    Ornament

    Personal Artefacts

  • Whakahounga o Mua
    04 Oct 2018
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