figure;
charm
- Museum number
- Am1976,03.20
- Description
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Ivory figure of a dogfish? carved and incised; shaman's charm made of wood.
- Dimensions
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Length: 9 centimetres
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Width: 4.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1976
- Acquisition notes
- This object was purchased from Robert Bruce Inverarity in 1976. In his accompanying notes (Eth. Doc. 1225), he records that he obtained the object in c.1955-1960 from John Klejman, proprietor of the Klejman Galleries in New York, who had collected it in Denmark some years earlier. Inverarity notes that all known examples of this type of object were once part of the collection that Klejman obtained in Denmark.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1976,03.20
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Item 20 (Inverarity collection number)
