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

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ID 128
Category Finery and self decoration
Item Necklaces and pendants
Type Nassa shell necklace side mounted
Made with modern equivalent? y
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 and Women
Used by Men and Women
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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