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Object Number 08-36-70/74434
Display Title House ornament of skulls of monkey and fruit bat
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, two small faunal skulls, blackened, arranged side by side, one skull retains lower jaw, each skull tied to wooden stick with rattan fiber
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1907
Culture
  • Ifugao
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Eastern Lepanto
Dimensions Overall: 13.7 × 9.6 × 5.2 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/4 × 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 74434
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1908
Provenance
Collector H. Otley Beyer
Collector Tuganai Pait

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