Collection Online
Medium
conus shell, wild banana seed, fibre string
Measurements
46.3 × 19.0 × 1.4 cm
Place/s of Execution
Tufi District, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea
Accession Number
2008.303
Department
Pacific Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Louise and Sam Dawson, 2008
© the artists
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
The necklace is of a polished lip of a trochus shell combined with ground-down bases of cone shells interspersed occasionally with small banana seeds.