Nasal ornament
Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this ornament, 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: Nasal ornament made of shell. Prajd (no literal translation). Ornament worn through hole in nasal septum, usually at ceremonials, by both sexes but commonly men (traded in).
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