Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Feather string

Vanuatu

 

Thought to have been collected by Robert Henry Codrington by 1888

Given to the Museum in 1920

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Feather string, Vanuatu

This red and white feather sting, or wetapup, was collected in Vanuatu in the late nineteenth century. Strings such as these were worn by males on the neck or ankle as a sign of social status. The strings were also used as a form of currency.

View database record 1920.100.376