Lagelag, Hawksbill Turtle Shell Bracelet

2000.01.0002

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Artifact Identification Lagelag, Hawksbill Turtle Shell Bracelet   (2000.01.0002)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Personal Artifacts
  2. :
  3. Adornment
  4. :
  5. Body Adornments
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 1962
Culture Yap, Yapese, Micronesian
Location On Exhibitin the Southeast Asia and Oceania exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Diameter) 5.7 cm
Dimension 2 (Depth) 3.1 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A) N/A
Weight 26 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Animal--Shell
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Incising

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Alkire, William H. Lamotrek Atoll and Inter-island Socioeconomic Ties. Illinois Studies in Anthropology, No. 5. University of Illinois Press: Urbana, 1965.

Kramer, Augustin. Ergebnisse der Sudsee Expedition 1908-1910. (ed.) G. Thilenius. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Co., 1937.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication William H. Alkire Collection, Transfer from Department of Anthropology, UIUC
Reproduction No

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