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Object Number
27-5-70/D3014
Display Title
Headdress
Descriptions
Object Description
Headdress made of porpoise teeth
Inventory Description
Necklace? made of tiny porpoise teeth, strung with beads on braided fiber
Classification
- Necklace
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
France
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French Polynesia
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Marquesas Islands
Materials
Porpoise tooth, Vegetable fiber, Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 45 x 6 x 4.2 cm (17 11/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
D3014
Provenance
Collector
Mrs. Edward Tenney
Donor
Mr. Edward Tenney
(1927)
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