Pair of clappers, tete, from a mourner′s costume, of shell and barkcloth, from the Society Islands (probably Tahiti); part of the Forster collection (part of Forster 27; 1867.1.1637.12.2)

Pair of clappers comprising two pearl-shell valves tied together with strips of barkcloth through two perforations in each valve. An accoutrement of the chief mourner and thus considered part of the mourner's dress

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