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Object Number
18-20-70/D1231
Display Title
Kapkap (carved clam and turtle shell forehead or breast ornament)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Kapkap
Inventory Description
Ornament, white shell disk, incised triangles, openwork tortoise overlay
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms
Admiralty Islands
Materials
Shell, Tortoiseshell, Twine
Dimensions
Overall: 13.6 x 13.5 x 1 cm (5 3/8 x 5 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
D-1231 / 106239.
Provenance
Provenance
Field Museum of Natural History
(1918)
Collector
A. B. Lewis
(1918)
Collector
Joseph Field Expedition
(1918)
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