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1913.65.36

Pendant of a whale tooth cut in half lengthwise with a cord of twisted plant fibre. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/12/2005]


1913.65.36

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pendant of a whale tooth cut in half lengthwise with a cord of twisted plant fibre. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/12/2005]
Geographical reference
Gilbert Islands Onotoa
Person
Field collector Edward Henry Meggs Davis
Field collector HMS Royalist
PRM source James Edge Partington
Date / Period
Date made: Before 05/1892
Date collected
May 1892
Acquisition information
Purchased: 03/1913
Materials and processes
Material Whale Tooth Animal, Material Plant Fibre, Process Perforated, Process Twisted
Dimensions
Length: max 150 mm tooth
Object numbers
Accession number: 1913.65.36 Other numbers: 281 X. 50
Associated publications
Illustrated in colour (PRM image PRM0001567345165) on page 33 of Collections from the H.M.S. Royalist in Kiribati, 1892, by Alison Clark (Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, undated [2016]). Caption (same page): 'Whale's tooth ornament, 1913.65.36, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' [JC 6 4 2017]

Search terms: Ornament, Pendant