Bride Price Valuable
84-2-26
From: New Guinea
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 84-2-26 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Arapesh |
Provenience | New Guinea |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Basketry | Shell | Wire |
Description | Basketry ornament, attached to a large piece of Green Snal shell. Round coiled basketry ornament with base and two tubular protrusions. Spiral design in black and white on yellow-brown ground. Attached by metal wire to crescent piece of Green Snal shell, scalloped along edges and colored with brown pigment. Shell broken in two. |
Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
Other Number | 328 - Other Number |
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