Bone bead necklace

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Title

Bone bead necklace

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This necklace is made from oxidised silver beads and chicken bones that Warwick Freeman dug up from the compost in his backyard in Auckland. Created for the exhibition Bone Stone Shell in 1988, Bone Bead Necklace was accompanied by two other necklaces, one made of pāua (large New Zealand abalone with blue-green inner shell) beads and the other from flakes of argillite. National identityBone Bead Necklace belongs to the period of the 1980s, and a decade-long search for materials and techniques...

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Format

Image

Date created

1987

Creator

Warwick Freeman

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/44578

Related subjects

bird bone / silver / thread / necklaces / jewellery / artifacts / beadmaking / jewellery making / primitivism / Postmodern / Auckland

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