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Ornament1461/8
An ornament with the central piece being two curved tusks connected together to create a horizontal oval-shape with fibre in between the middle of them. Attached around the tusks, there is a looped beaded band with two rows of white beads outlining the central pattern of alternating rectangles of blue, green, and red. From the tusks, there dangles five strings (two at the top next to the looped beaded band and three at the bottom) of blue, green, white, and black beads with a black seed bead at the end.
- Culture
- Motu
- Material
- glass, fibre, seed and tusk
- Made in
- Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Ornament1461/5
An ornament with the central piece being a flat, round, circular shell from which dangles a cowrie shell surrounded by black-brown seed beads and two strings of green and red beads with a seashell at each end and a plant fibre, possibly grass, below. The central piece has the following written in pencil: "BELE & KARE Tamana".
- Culture
- Motu
- Material
- fibre, seed, cowrie shell and grass ?
- Made in
- Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Ornament1461/4
An ornament with the central piece being a tusk hook from which dangles a braided fibre rope overlapped with shells tied around it.
- Culture
- Motu
- Material
- fibre, tusk and shell
- Made in
- Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia