Детали

IPSMG:R.1938.1.77

Ipswich Collections

Ornament made of rectangular pearlshell pieces with four holes holes drilled on each allowing them to be strung onto two-ply twisted coconut and vegetable fibre cord. One shell broken in half. Part of a Tahitian mourner's costume? Index card says: 'Headdress of New Zealand, Chief's wife, 2 rows of rectangular plates of mother of pearl, Maori' and in pencil 'Labelled as Caroline Isles.'

Polynesia, French Polynesia, Society Islands, Tahiti?

18th Century, late, 19th Century, early

pearlshell, coconut fibre, vegetable fibre