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Clamshell ring necklace
(20th century)

Medium
clam shell, shell, fibre string

Measurements
38.0 × 18.0 × 3.0 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Louise and Sam Dawson, 2008
© the artists

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Orotoaba village, Tufi District, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea

Accession Number
2008.297

Department
Pacific Art

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Physical description
A very fine necklace of fragments of salmon pink sea snail shells combined with a pair of bound solid clamshell wealth rings.