Armlet

Museum number:

11-40138

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Accession number:

Acc.2006

Description:

White shell cuff, pierced in two places for fibre strands of beads: 2 wild banana seeds, 4 spondylus, red glass beads, white glass beads, 1 small blue, 1 large blue, 1 large black. The single free end, below large blue bead ends in a small twist of pandanus.

Donor:

Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation

Collection place:

Massim region, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea

Culture or time period:

Massim

Collector:

Bronislaw Malinowski and Bruce D. Lawes

Collection date:

1914-1920

Materials:

Seashell

Taxon:

Conus

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Armlets

Function:

7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers

Accession date:

1965

Department:

Oceania

Loans:

S1971-1972 #143: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (May 15, 1972–May 15, 1972), S1972-1973 #80: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 11, 1973–April 11, 1973), 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)

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