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Arm band, conus shell
Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Islands
Collector unknown; exchanged from Cambridge University, 1962.
11–37061
In his Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922), Malinowski analyzed the kula ring, the exchange of shell valuables in a circle around the chain of Trobriand Islands. This ornament was traded from island to island in a counter-clockwise direction.
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