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Kōrero: Crafts and applied arts

Alan Preston bangle, 1987

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Alan Preston bangle, 1987

Alan Preston exhibited this mother-of-pearl, oyster, coconut-shell, silver and gold bangle in the Bone Stone Shell exhibition of 1988. Preston was strongly influenced by Pacific aesthetics, as seen in some of the materials used in this bangle.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: 1993-0038-37

Courtesy of Alan Preston

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Douglas Lloyd Jenkins rāua ko Lucy Hammonds, Crafts and applied arts – Ceramics, glass, jewellery and textiles, 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/object/45325/alan-preston-bangle-1987 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Douglas Lloyd Jenkins rāua ko Lucy Hammonds, i tāngia i te 16 May 2014.