Ear ornament
These ornaments are from the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific. They have been carefully carved with the edges polished to a shine displaying the grain of the material. People would wear these objects on their ears.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 160/2000/1/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- turtleshell
- Common Name
- ear ornament
- Simple Name
- ornament
- Production County
- Santa Cruz Islands
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
