Bride Price Valuable
84-2-27
From: New Guinea
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 84-2-27 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Arapesh |
Provenience | New Guinea |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Basketry | Shell | Mud |
Description | Basketry ornament, attached to a large piece of Green Snal shell. Basketry ornment triangualr with small round protrusions at sides, two narrow holes in center. Covered with mud (much of which is chipped off), with red, black, white pigments. Black cassowary and small brown feathers fastened along two edges. Base secured, with peel to piece of green Snail shell (pierced). |
Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein, 1984 |
Other Number | 261 - Other Number |
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