necklace
- Museum number
- Oc,+.2604
- Description
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Necklace of three polished whale teeth suspended from coir cord.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1885)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 22 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Registration slip description, written in 1885?:
Tongan Islands
Part of a necklace composed of three polished teeth of the sperm whale, strung onto a cord of simnet.
No history.
cf. Mariner, Tonga, ca. 1818, I. 299.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 5 December 1885
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.2604
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1885C2.2604 (old CDMS no.)