Ornament

Used for self decoration by men in everyday and especially on ceremonial occasions (hung around the neck) and also as exchange objects. Shells metonymically refer to men and are part of male accoutrements. May also metonymically refer to objects in general.

Everyday; ceremonial.

A bailer shell, white on the convex surface, with an irregular brown coating on the concave surface. Triangular shape with rounded corners and one corner notched. Five holes are bored near the two upper corners. Through two of these, there has been strung a double length of cheesecloth 61 cm. long. The cheesecloth is coloured with yellow clay.