Arm ring
Register reads “Two bangles. Made from giant clam shell money. Formally presented in 1967 as a parting gift, “Kesa”.” Kesa is the name of money cylinders of clamshell, characteristic of Choiseul, and quite different from these coneshell rings which are characteristic of rings worn on the arm in western Solomons.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 83/2005/6
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- Melanesia
- Material
- giant clam shell
- Common Name
- arm ring
- Simple Name
- bangle
- Production County
- Choiseul
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Year Low
- 1950
- Production Year High
- 1967
