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Breast Ornament

Object Number:29-50-49
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: New Guinea
German New Guinea
Sepik River
Tambunum
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Plant Fiber
Shell
Bone
Length: 67 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number:298 - Other Number

Description

Man's breast ornament. Roughly plaited fibres carrying shell rings. 4 metacarpal bones as pendant.

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