Ei

Description:

Ei. Necklace consisting of blue/grey ua (seeds) poepoe (Job's tears, Coix lacryma-jobi) and ua mata koviriviri (Red-bead tree, Adenanthera pavonina). The seeds are bored and strung with cotton thread thread in a pattern of two ua poepoe followed by single ua mata koviriviri.

Display date:

Made: Circa 1930; Acquired: 07 Jul 1993

Location:

Rarotonga

Collections:

Auckland Museum Collections Online

Content partner:

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Availability:

Not specified