Necklace tuinga kahoa
Place: Tonga
Category: Jewellery & adornment
wood, plant fibre, Tonga, l. 43 cm, Inv. Oz 192
Humphrey No. 63: ‘a Necklace formed of the like beads as No. 60 neatly worked into a plaited String, from ditto [Friendly Isles].’
Small wooden discs (with a hole in the middle) are incorporated into a plaited string in such a way that they cannot be moved, with small spaces left in between. Inken Köhler, Ulrike Rehr, Gundolf Krüger