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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
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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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00-8-70/55324 | Necklace, boar's tusk pendant |
Necklace
|
Fiji
| |
| 13-34-70/85249 | Necklace with cowries, boar's tusk |
Necklace
|
Vanuatu
| |
| 98-8-70/51746 | Neck ornament with boar's tusk pendant |
Necklace
|
Fiji
| |
| 2004.1.555 | Ornaments, boar tusks and tusk fragments, top wrapped with hide, fiber tie |
Ornament
|
Indonesia
New Guinea | |
| 18-20-70/D1150 | Breast ornament of boar's tusks, long central piece edged with nasca + |
Necklace
|
New Britain
| |
| 26-46-20/C9998 | Seed and peccary tusk necklace |
Necklace
|
Panama
| |
| 67-10-70/416 | Boar's tusk bracelet |
Bracelet
|
Hawaii
| |
| 32-66-70/D3924 | Boar tusk armlet |
Bracelet
|
Mindanao
| |
| 46-78-70/2363 | Breast ornament composed of vertical arrangement of boar tusks and + |
Ornament
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 27-5-70/D2923 | Boar tusks |
Bone
|
Hawaii
| |
| 07-45-70/72648 | Boar's tusk nose ornament, when in use the two tusks are connected + |
Bone
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 46-78-70/2365 | Ornament composed of 4 boar tusks |
Ornament
|
Papua New Guinea
|