Stone Tool Use and Material Culture in Papua New Guinea: Items of Material Culture

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ID 127
Category Finery and self decoration
Item Necklaces and pendants
Type Nassa shell necklace front mounted
Rattan y
Bamboo y
String y
Bark y
Shell y
Raw materials Job's tears, nettle vines, tree and fig saplings, cowrie shells, nassa shells, shell discs, arc shells, string, rattan, cassowary quills, tulip bark fibre, bamboo, leaves, screw pine, feathers, bark, resin, hornbill beak, pig's tusk, wax, pig grease
Made by Men mainly Women sometimes
Used by Men mainly Women sometimes
Made by men? y
Made by women? y
Made by children n
Used by Men y
Used by Women y
Used by Children n


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