- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Arm ornament made from a boar’s tooth. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/11/2005]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1918
- Date collected
- By 1918
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 07/1918
- Materials and processes
- Material Boar Tooth Animal
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 92 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1918.54.2
Search terms: Animalia, Specimen, Ornament, Technique, Animal Part, Arm Ornament
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