Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 10856: 'Head ornament of a chief. It consists of a carved open work design in turtle shell mounted at the middle by a string of native fibre passed through a hole in a clam shell disk which acts as a background to the shell design'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
A label glued to the catalogue card reads 'Selwyn 1889'. Another small rectangular label with internal blue border and serrated edges reads: 'Bt Selwyn'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
An old display label found in the archives (OA2/15/9) reads: ‘FOREHEAD / ORNAMENT / OF A CHIEF / D. BISHOP SELWYN / Z,10856'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
'San Cristoval. Selwyn' inscribed in pencil on the back. A small blue label with a decorative blue border glued to the catalogue card reads 'Bt Selwyn'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Possibly collected by Bishop Selwyn in 1889 [based on label glued on the object's catalogue card].
Event Date 1889
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Forehead ornament made of a carved open work design in turtle-shell attached to a disk of Tridacna shell. There is a tassel of white and pink shell beads and black coconut shell bead attached to the centre of the object. The ornament is attached to a large band of finely plaited orchid fibre dyed red.
Event Date 31/03/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (References)
Illustrated in Lucie Carreau. 2016. Collections from the Solomon Islands. Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13275, p.12.
Event Date 2016
Author: Lucie Carreau