Ear ornament

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Description

tortoise shell, butterfly-shaped, notches on the upper rim, calcification backside;
worn in pairs as ear ornament: used among the Kalinga, Bontoc and Ilonggot. Because of the second drilled hole at the bottom it might as well have been part of a breast ornament “isneg”, where several such shell ornaments were arranged one on top of each other (see D. Baradas, 1995, pl. 20).

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Comparing literature

Baradas, David, Land of the Morning, Treasures of the Philippines, San Francisco 1995, plate 15 Anderson, Eric Moltzau, In the shape of tradition, Leiden 2010, p. 317

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