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Object Number 13-34-70/85249
Display Title Necklace with cowries, boar's tusk
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, hide strand with hanging cowrie shell and tusk pendants
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Vanuatu
Dimensions Overall: 31.8 x 9 x 2 cm (12 1/2 x 3 9/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 85249

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Necklace, boar's tusk pendant
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Necklace
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Necklace
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Necklace
New Britain
Pendants made of boars tusk. Sus scrofa (wild pig) tusk.
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Ornament
Switzerland
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Ornament
Switzerland
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Bone
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Boar's tusk, used for polishing
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Andaman Islands
Boar's tusk bracelet
67-10-70/415 Boar's tusk bracelet
Ornament
Hawaii
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Point
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Splinter of boar's tusk with definite signs of utilization
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Utilized bone
Raw Material
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Ornament
Samoa
Boar's tusk bracelet
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Bracelet
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