Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

Oceania

 

Shell armlet

Solomon Islands

 

Thought to have been collected by Robert Henry Codrington

Given to the Museum in 1920

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Shell armlet, Solomon Islands

This tridacna shell armlet was collected in the Solomon Islands in Melanesia in the late nineteenth century. In Oceania, jewellery and body ornaments were predominantly worn by men. As most of the population lived near the sea, shells and other marine substances were the most common raw materials for making such ornaments.

View database record 1920.100.367