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1895.43.23

Ornament of two boar's tusks joined together with string and hung with multiple strings of coix seeds ending in feathers. Also with a long string of hair wound in one place with orchid stem and ending in a pendant of long feathers. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/2/2006]

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1895.43.23

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ornament of two boar's tusks joined together with string and hung with multiple strings of coix seeds ending in feathers. Also with a long string of hair wound in one place with orchid stem and ending in a pendant of long feathers. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/2/2006]
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source S.G. Fenton and Company
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1895
Date collected
By 1895
Acquisition information
Purchased: 30/01/1895
Materials and processes
Material Boar Tooth Animal, Material String, Material Bird Feather, Material Hair, Material Coix Seed Plant, Material Orchid Stem Plant, Process Wound, Process Strung
Dimensions
Length: max 440 mm as mounted
Object numbers
Accession number: 1895.43.23

Search terms: Ornament, Pendant

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