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Object Number
08-36-70/74434
Display Title
House ornament of skulls of monkey and fruit bat
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Ornament, two small faunal skulls, blackened, arranged side by side, one skull retains lower jaw, each skull tied to wooden stick with rattan fiber
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1907
Culture
- Ifugao
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Philippines
/
Luzon
/
Eastern Lepanto
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Materials
Bone , Rattan , Wood , Charcoal , Resin?
Dimensions
Overall: 13.7 × 9.6 × 5.2 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/4 × 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
74434
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1908
Provenance
Collector
H. Otley Beyer
Collector
Tuganai Pait
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