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Object Number 96-25-70/49400
Display Title Necklace
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, central pendant of two boar tusks forming a crescent shape, small pink and white shell disks on either side of pendant, four small brown disks interspersed, twisted fiber cordage
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Mailu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / <County> / <City> / Cape Nelson
Dimensions Overall: 40.5 × 7.5 × 2.5 cm (15 15/16 × 2 15/16 × 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49400 ; 95-45
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz

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