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Object Number 14-29-70/85726
Display Title Tabua, ceremonial whale tooth attached to braided cord
Descriptions
Indigenous Term tambua
Inventory Description Necklace cordage, braided linked fiber cord
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Oceania / Tonga?
Dimensions Overall: 40.4 x 31 x 5 cm (15 7/8 x 12 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 85726
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1914)

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Tabua, ceremonial whale tooth attached to braided cord
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