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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