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boar tusk ornament

The boar tusk is brown-white and long, crescent-shaped. A hole has been drilled through the end that is not pointed. Perpendicular striations are running along the tusk.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
tusks (animal component)
Dimensions
General: 0.5 × 9.7 × 4 cm
Material/Technique
Boar's tooth
carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12486
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12486

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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