Necklace

Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this necklace, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.

Jackson fieldnotes: Necklace of 188 animal teeth and one ground cowrie shell lashed with two ply fibre cord. Worn mainly by both sexes at anytime. Also can be passed down as heirlooms. Wild (= wal) animal teeth (= meg); teeth of knm (Phalanger gymnotis), bwdol, kayn (domestic dog). Made by men.
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Maker
Media/Materials
Teeth, (single) cowrie shell and natural fibre string.
Measurements
1390mm - Full length of string [verified].
35 x 5 - HxW of teeth [verified].
Production place
Lower Kaironk Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Collection
Graham Jackson Collection/New Guinea Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1974/64/181

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