Man's necklace, mid 20th century, collected 1963 ::

Place where the work was made: Tari → Tari-Pori District → Hela Province → Papua New Guinea
Cultural origin: Huli people
Dates: mid 20th century
collected 1963
Media category: Jewellery
Materials used: gold-lipped oyster shell (Pinctada maxima), 16 cowrie shells (Cypraeidae), 11 pig tusks, red seeds (probably Adenanthera pavonina), plaited plant-fibre cord
Dimensions: decoration 43.5 cm length; overall 55.0 cm length; pearlshell pendant 11.5 x 16.5 cm; tusks 5.5 to 12.0 cm length
Credit: Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
Location: Not on display
Accession number: 657.1979
Copyright: © Huli people, under the endorsement of PIMA's 'Code of Ethics'
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Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014

Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 111 (colour illus.), 162. cat.no. 57