Bracelet
The account in the register implies that Hamilton confused this ornament with tusk ornaments from Vanuatu. The note “bought by the donor as a gift to his wife” confirms its identity as an ornament made for the export trade.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 83/2005/4
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- Melanesia
- Material
- trochus shell
- Common Name
- bracelet
- Simple Name
- bangle
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Year Low
- 1950
- Production Year High
- 1967
