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)