Tafi – necklace

Maker
Kamoifinua
Description
Tafi for a child or a woman. This one is given extra value by decorations of dogs (the two central large teeth). Two dogs and two fying fox on ends, dogs teeth on lower hangings. Worn round the neck.
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Maker
Media/Materials
Dogs teeth, shell, plaited twine.
Measurements
350 x 140 x 28mm - HxWxD (outstretched).
Production place
Nataghera, Santa Ana, Solomon Islands
Collection
Mead Collection/Solomon Island/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1973/49/87

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