1974.14.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Fossil tooth of the giant panda set in a silver tie pin. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2006]

Geographical reference

Netherlands

Europe > Western Europe > Netherlands

Utrecht

Cultural groups

Dutch

Person

Maker Jeweler in Utrecht

Field collector Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

PRM source Kenneth Page Oakley

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Middle Pleistocene Date made: 1963

Date collected

By 1963

Acquisition information

Donated: 1974

Materials and processes

Material Tooth, Material Silver Metal, Material Animal Tooth, Material Fossil

Dimensions

Length 73 mm, Width: max 18 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1974.14.2

Associated publications

Illustrated in black and white as Plate IX d in Decorative and Symbolic Uses of Vertebrate Fossils by Kenneth Oakley (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 12. The illustration is captioned (page 10-11) as follows: 'd Crown of third lower molar of Middle Pleistocene variety of the giant panda Ailuropoda melanoluca fovealis (Matthew & Granger) mounted as head of silver tie-pin; tooth obtained from Chinese pharmacy in Hong Kong by Professor G. H. R. von Koenigswald with the aid of a 'prescription' for lung chhih. Colour: ivory, traces of yellow earth in the grooves. Roots of the tooth chewed off by porcupine. Dimensions: 19 x 20 mm. Author's collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, reg. no. 1974.14.2. [MJD 08/08/2012]

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