Conus shell armband with five attached cowrie-type shells with strings of colored glass beads and banana shell beads strung on nylon (?) fishline. Twisted fiber rope tied through armshell.
Collection place:
Fergusson Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Massim
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ornaments (object genre)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1973-1974 #81: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Burton Benedict (April 10, 1974–April 12, 1974), S1974-1975 #32: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (November 7, 1974–November 8, 1974), S1975-1976 #74: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 14, 1976–April 14, 1976), S1976-1977 #70: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Karen Nero (April 13, 1977–April 14, 1977), S1985-1986 #47: Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale Univ.) (April 1, 1986–July 31, 1986), S1985-1986 #48: Jagiellonian University, Poland (October 1, 1986–March 31, 1987), S1985-1986 #49: Warsaw Museum of Asia and the Pacific (1987–1987), and S1985-1986 #9: Arizona State Museum (September 20, 1985–February 7, 1986)