Pacific Jewellery and AdornmentThe Auckland Museum has extensive collections of the traditional personal ornaments of the peoples of the South Pacific, including Melanesia and Micronesia. They display a huge variety of styles and materials used, yet all reflect the lifestyles, preoccupations and imperatives of a people surrounded by thousands of square miles of ocean. |
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ADMIRALTY ISLANDS areas arm bands arm rings attached Auckland Auckland Museum belts Bismarck Archipelago boar tusks BREAST ORNAMENT BREAST PENDANT canoes Caroline Islands carved ceremonial clam shell coast coconut shell coloured combs Conus shell cultures currency dance decorated dog teeth Dr Thomson Wilson earlobes feathers fibre Fiji fishhook glass trade-beads H. C. Maude head-dress hei-tiki heirlooms HIGHLANDS human hair ivory jade James Adams Wilkes James Edge-Partington Collection jewellery kapkap Kiribati Lapita Length Leys Memorial 1924 Malaita Maori materials Melanesia Micronesia Nassa shells neck ornament NECK PENDANT Oldman Collection 1948 opposite ORO PROVINCE Pacific jewellery PAPUA NEW GUINEA patterns pearl shell Photo plaited Polynesian porpoise teeth Presented by Dr Purchased Samoa shell arm rings shell discs shell rings SOLOMON ISLANDS Spondylus string Thomson Wilson Leys Tonga trade Tridacna turtle shell Vanuatu W. O. Oldman Collection wear whale teeth width Wilson Leys Memorial women wore worn Zealand