- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Necklace in glass-fronted museum display box. Cotton necklet strung with peccary canine teeth worn as a hunter's tally trophy. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 6/12/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 08/1923
- Date collected
- By August 1923
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936
- Materials and processes
- Material Pig Tooth Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Perforated, Process Strung, Process Wound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 470 mm display box
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1936.23.8
Search terms: Ornament, Writing, Hunting, Measurement, Neck Ornament, Tally, Hunting accessory
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