Ornament

Personal ornaments are worn extensively by both men and women in festival and everyday contexts.

Large crescent-shaped shell which is pierced at both ends where it attaches to a fibre strap. The shell has a 'mother-of-pearl' appearance underneath, and yellowed on top. The top has some natural holes, two distinctively side by side. The strap is of halves; the knot at the end of one passes through the loop of the other. The fibre is brown and decorated with cowrie shells on the lower parts.