Shell 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: Disk-like shell ornament (probably cut from a conus shell). Gsn = a shell valuable (all sea shells are traded in or come as gifts).
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