“Kina” necklace.

Kina exchange currency

Papua New Guinea

Shell (huître Pinctada maxima), wickerwork (later, some strings have been used to attach the wickerwork to the mother of pearl), red pigment.

Height : 18 cm;Width : 19cm

Mother-of-pearl plate in the shape of a crescent with traces of red pigment on the whole surface, particularly the outside part. It presents a hole at each tip, used to channel a woven wickerwork cord strengthened later by as tring. It is worn as a pendant.

Some damage on the wickerwork.