Waist ornament
Waist ornament worn by chiefs, with the wooden part in the small of the back and the cords in front. Collected by Commander Leah of the Cruiser Mildura while in the Pacific in 1894.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 286/1914
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- hardwoodfibre
- Common Name
- waist ornament
- Simple Name
- ornament
- Production Town
- Espiritu Santo
- Production Country
- Vanuatu
