armlet
- Museum number
- Oc,VAN.286
- Description
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Armlet of 21 boar’s tusks, their tops cut off, each with two perforations, through which is threaded a twisted vegetable fibre [olona?] cord, terminating in two ties tied together on one side. The string is continuous, threaded through all the perforations at the same level, and at the last tusk looped back to go through all the lower/higher perforations & coming out as a tie.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Curator's comments
- Register slip comment:
'Bracelt of boar's teeth'
Vancouver III 39
M.S. Cat. 39
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1986-1987 12 Jun-4 Jan, The Vancouver Museum, Captain George Vancouver: A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World, 1791-1795
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Acquisition notes
- Collected on George Vancouver's voyage to Hawaii and the NW coast of North America 1791-1795.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,VAN.286
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1891C25.286 (old CDMS no.)
