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Object Number
09-7-70/74520
Display Title
Ear pendants of hornbill beak
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Earrings, two matching, extended curved and tapered pendant of thin and flat orange hornbill beak, brass at each end of beak, small brass chains at each end, chains decorated with small bundles of red fiber, chains connect to small triangular mother of pearl decorations
Classification
- Earring
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Ilongot
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Philippines
/
Luzon
Dimensions
Overall (measurement of earring with three chains at base): 32.3 × 2.2 × 0.4 cm (12 11/16 × 7/8 × 3/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
74520
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