Subject: ngwane ramo warrior chief
Culture: Solomon Islander
Setting: slave raiding, tribal warfare, Solomon Islands mid 19th-early 20thc
Object: disc ornaments
Metropolitan Museum of Art *
Breastplate (Tema, Tambe, or Tepātu)
Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands,
19th-early 20th century
Tridacna shell, turtle shell, trade cloth, fiber" ...
* Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Pendant (Kapkap) Solomon Islands, early 20th century
Tridacna shell, turtle shell, glass bead, fiber" ...
"Pendant (Ulute or Papafita) Possibly Malaita Island,
eastern Solomon Islands, 19th-early 20th century
Tridacna shell, pigment" ...
"Pendant (Kapkap) Solomon Islands, early 20th century
Tridacna shell, turtle shell, glass bead, fiber" ...
