Accession No
Z 7677
Description
Pendant - Card 1: 'NASI SAUAD. Trochus shell (nasi) ornament cut to represent a boar's tusk artificially deformed (sauad).'
Card 2: 'Trochus shell ornament ground down to represent a boar's tusk. String through hole in thick end.'
Worn at conclusion of Malu-Bomai initiation ceremonies by leading men.
Place
Oceania; Australasia; Australia; Queensland; Torres Strait; Mer
Period
Source
Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr) [collector]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
Z 7677; MAA: Z 7677; OH 902
Cultural Affliation
Material
Shell; Trochus Shell
Local Term
Nasir sauad
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Moore's book is based upon research involving an examination of all Haddon material in British and Australian Museums. Cf. also 89+15B, Mer, 1889 - complete circle, with red cotton tassel (British Museum collection); PR.I.56, Mer, 1889 (Pitt Rivers M; Collected by: Haddon, Dr A.C. in 1898; Ref. Plate: Pl. VII, fig. 5
Event Date 3/11/1994
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Card 1: 'NASI SAUAD. Trochus shell (nasi) ornament cut to represent a boar's tusk artificially deformed (sauad).'
Card 2: 'Trochus shell ornament ground down to represent a boar's tusk. String through hole in thick end.'
Worn at conclusion of Malu-Bomai initiation ceremonies by leading men; Good.
Event Date 3/11/1994
Author: maa
FM:79601
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