breast-ornament;
girdle
- Museum number
- Oc.7273
- Description
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Breast' ornament ('waist), girdle made of 44 pieces of cachalot tooth, strung on a fibre cord.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1871)
- Dimensions
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Length: 5.30 centimetres (Dimensions of one tooth (as sample).)
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Width: 1.60 centimetres
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Registration slip description, written in 1872?:
"Island of Rotumah"
"Ornament worn in front of the stomach over the waist cloth", consisting of a number of pieces of cachalot tooth, rubbed into the form of the natural tooth and strung on twisted fibre cord. 44 in all.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.7273
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1871C1.7273 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1871C0425.10
