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OrnamentIe317

A bailer shell, white on the convex surface, with an irregular brown coating on the concave surface. Triangular shape with rounded corners and one corner notched. Five holes are bored near the two upper corners. Through two of these, there has been strung a double length of cheesecloth 61 cm. long. The cheesecloth is coloured with yellow clay.

Culture
Kewa
Material
clay, cotton fibre and bailer shell
Made in
Koiari, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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