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Object Number 67-10-70/416
Display Title Boar's tusk bracelet
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Kupe'e ho'akalakala
Inventory Description Bracelet of boar tusks strung together side by side
Classification
  • Bracelet
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 9.4 × 12.3 × 12.4 cm (3 11/16 × 4 13/16 × 4 7/8 in.) Storage: 24.13 × 19.685 × 16.51 cm (9 1/2 × 7 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 416
Provenance
Donor Massachusetts Historical Society (1867)

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Boar's tusk bracelet
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