Ornament
A flat section of slate, with an incised and painted design on each surface, hung on fishing line threaded with seed beads. Shown here is a man depicted in traditional head man attire and holding a barbed spear.
Collected in the 1960s.
Collected in the 1960s.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 36/2000/2
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- slate like mineralseedsnylon
- Common Name
- ornament
- Simple Name
- ornament
- Production County
- Highlands
- Production Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Production Year High
- 2000
