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Object Number
99-1-70/52214
Display Title
Breast ornament with shell pendant
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Necklace, white shell pendant, seed, shell and tusk ornament, fiber cord
Classification
- Necklace
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
Dimensions
Overall: 35.5 x 4.1 x 3.3 cm (14 x 1 5/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
52214
Provenance
Collector
Mr. Ballestier
(1845-1846)
Donor
Heirs of Warren Delano
(1899)
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Media Restricted
| 18-25-70/D973 | Warrior's breast ornament |
Necklace
Shaft, modified |
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 46-78-70/2363 | Breast ornament composed of vertical arrangement of boar tusks and + |
Ornament
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 96-25-70/49402 | Shell ornament for breast |
Necklace
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 39-30-10/18191 | Shell breast ornament - dentalia shells |
Necklace
|
North America
| |
| 18-20-70/D1150 | Breast ornament of boar's tusks, long central piece edged with nasca + |
Necklace
|
New Britain
| |
| 09-5-70/74484 | War breast ornament |
Breastplate
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 03-33-30/62638 | Shell breast ornaments |
Raw Material
Necklace |
Paraguay
| |
| 33-76-60/303 | Breast ornament, coral and silver, inlaid piece of shell |
Necklace
|
Mongolia
| |
Media Restricted
| 09-5-70/74485 | Charm or ornament |
Necklace
Shaft, modified |
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 38-44-10/12818 | Dentalia shell necklace with shell and breast ornament |
Necklace
|
North America
| |
| 40-12-70/1567 | Ornament of blue and white beads with shell pendants |
Necklace
|
Bougainville Island
| |
| 33-76-60/300 | Breast ornament, enamel and tiger claws (to keep off evil+ |
Necklace
|
Mongolia
|