Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Breast ornament

Solomon Islands

 

Thought to have been collected by Robert Henry Codrington

Given to the Museum in 1920

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Breast ornament, Solomon Islands

This breast ornament was collected in the Santa Cruz Islands area of the Solomon Islands in the late nineteenth century. It is made from tridacna-shell with a design overlaid in turtle-shell. The turtle-shell design represents a frigate bird with a number of bonito fish above it.

View database record 1920.100.389