Necklace tuinga kahoa
Place: Tonga
Category: Jewellery & adornment
beads, shell, Tonga, l. 60 cm, Inv. Oz 195
Humphrey No. 80: ‘A Necklace composed of the like kind of beads as No. 60 & 61, brown Shells and pieces of Tortoiseshell, from the Friendly Isles.’
Small white shells, small dark wooden discs, small reddish-brown snail shells and four comparatively larger pieces of tortoiseshell are arranged on a string. Inken Köhler, Ulrike Rehr, Gundolf Krüger