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Object Number 99-12-70/64544
Display Title Wrist ornament
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Kupe'e palaoa
Inventory Description Ornament, ivory, oval disk, flat base, rounded smooth body, two connecting perforations in base
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 3.7 × 3.1 × 1.2 cm (1 7/16 × 1 1/4 × 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 64544
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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