pendant;
artefact
- Museum number
- Am,Ll.3
- Description
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Pendant, artefact (3-pronged) made of bone.
- Production date
- 1876 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 11.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.25 centimetres
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Width: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, March 1985 "Walrus ivory, red ochre, seal fat? Three-pronged pendant carved from rectangular blank of walrus ivory. Hole bored at top for stringing. Centre cut through in narrow ellipse. Incised designs stained with red ochre, possibly mixed with seal fat."
- Location
- On display (G26/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1982-1987 Jun-Jan, Museum of Mankind, Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in North America, 1600-1900
1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Acquisition notes
- Comment by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, March 1985 "Collected by T.G.B. Lloyd, esquire, Geological Society, Somerset House, London, 1875-1876. See other Lloyd numbers in this collection."
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,Ll.3
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1876D24.3 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1876C0112.6
