Necklace
2017-14-7
From: Indonesia | New Guinea | Papua Province | Baliem Valley
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2017-14-7 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Dani |
| Provenience | Indonesia | New Guinea | Papua Province | Baliem Valley |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Boar Tusk | Cowrie Shell | Plant Fiber | Job's Tears Seed | Hair |
| Description | Man's necklace. Large pair of boar's tusks bound together by and suspended from a band of plaited plant fiber decorated with twenty cowrie shells and borders of Job's tears seeds. Hanging from the fiber band connecting the tusks are bits of hide and a bunch of hair. Criss-cross lacings of narrow yellow vine (?) in the spaces between the lowest pairs of cowries. |
| Length | 51 cm |
| Width | 18.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift from the collection of Robert C. and Mae R. Carter, 2017 |
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