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Object Number 99-12-70/53768
Display Title Necklace of bone pendants
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, plant fiber string with hanging, thin carved bone pendants
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Kiribati / Phoenix Islands / Drummond's Island
Dimensions Overall: 16.6 x 11.3 x 0.9 cm (6 9/16 x 4 7/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53768
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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