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Boar tusk necklace
Object Number 41-54-70/1994
Display Title Boar tusk necklace
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, three sections, eighteen tusks lashed together with braided fiber
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Tusk, Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 15 x 7 x 3.5 cm (5 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 41-54-70/1994
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Grant, 1941
Provenance
Owner Boston Museum
Donor Mrs. Henry C. Grant (1941)

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