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Object Number 99-12-70/53616
Display Title Necklace covered with carved ivory pendants
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, wrapped and braided fiber chain with carved bone pendants
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Zealand / Cook Islands / Mangaia Island
Oceania / France / French Polynesia / Austral Islands
Additional Geographic Terms Hervey Group
Dimensions Overall: 21.5 x 14.2 x 2.1 cm (8 7/16 x 5 9/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53616; 38-44
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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