Necklace

Necklace worn by Mayer as part of the Williams Reconciliation Ceremony on Erromango, Vanuatu in 2009. Erromango, the largest island in the southernmost province of Vanuatu, was formerly known as Martyr's Island by the Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century, because of the risk there attached to missionary work. John Williams of the London Missionary Society was killed at Dillon's Bay in 1839. In December 2009, after a lengthy collaboration between the Museum of Anthropology and church and cultural leaders in Vanuatu, descendants of Williams travelled to Erromango to accept the apologies of descendants of those who killed their ancestor in a Reconciliation Ceremony. To mark the occasion, Dillon's Bay was renamed Williams Bay.

Seed necklace. Made of two strands of white and gray seeds strung on plastic wire with long dyed grass tassels tied to each end. The strands loop together and are attached with orange ribbon, at the pink, purple, orange and green tasseled ends, to a white and green grass ornament with a pink star in the centre.