- 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]
- 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]
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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