Pendants and beads of stone, shell, and tooth from southern Vanuatu

Eve Haddow; James L. Flexner; Stuart Bedford; Matthew Spriggs

doi:10.4324/9781315299112

Pendants and beads of stone, shell, and tooth from southern Vanuatu

Eve Haddow, James L. Flexner, Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs

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Abstract

Southern Vanuatu formed a hub in a network stretching to New Caledonia, some 400km south-west, and to Western Polynesia, several thousand kilometres east. We currently have limited understanding of the diachronic elements of this network, with most knowledge coming from ethnohistoric data. Greenstone was traded from New Caledonia, and objects of shell and tooth likely featured in Polynesian exchanges in more recent prehistory. As an initial step in investigating this dynamic network, we review archaeological findings and museum examples of portable art from southern Vanuatu. This material reveals traces of indigenous agency, exchange systems and significance of portable art in the region, with ethnohistoric data providing a baseline for exploring the deeper past of long-distance and inter-archipelagic networks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Archaeology of Portable Art
Subtitle of host publication	Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	102-124
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315299105
ISBN (Print)	9781138237766
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315299112
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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