kap kap

Composite ornament for wearing on the forehead or in the back of the hair, constructed from a curved circular piece of clamshell which has been pierced at the centre so that it can be attached to a circular piece of turtle shell in front. This piece is cut into a pattern of four converging sets of concentric V shapes around an X shape, which in this case is frame with a circle of 14 rectangular cells.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
35.10
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 96 mm x 88 mm x 25 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
shell; tortoiseshell; plant fibre
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
World Gallery > Oceania > Sea crossing
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