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94/265/2 Ceremonial belt, Kafa (traditionally made in Tonga), glass/plastic, Sela Smith, Australia, 1990-1993.
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Object statement
Ceremonial belt, Kafa (traditionally made in Tonga), glass/plastic, Sela Smith, Australia, 1990-1993.
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
Designed by Sela Smith, as part of the Dee Why Tongan women's group for ceremonial use.

The belt displays an inventive combination of contemporary materials worked with customary objects.
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Used in performances in Sydney, including Tongan ceremony performed at the opening of "Pirating the Pacific", Sept. 1993.

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Description
Ceremonial belt, Kafa (traditionally made in Tonga), glass/plastic, Sela Smith, Australia, 1990-1993.
Black plaited-braid, waist-band attached to lines of synthetic monofilament threaded with dense bunches of glass beads in alternating colours of blue/white and gold/red.

Designed: Smith, Sela; Dee Why, New South Wales

Designed: Dee Why Tongan Women's Group; Dee Why, New South Wales

Made: Smith, Sela; Dee Why, New South Wales; 1990 - 1993

Made: Dee Why Tongan Women's Group; Dee Why, New South Wales; 1990 - 1993


Used: Smith, Sela; Sydney
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
94/265/2
Width
220 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1994
Subjects
+ Tongan Australian culture
+ Ceremonies and rites
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