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D07477 flying fox tooth necklace currency

Many flying fox teeth are threaded onto and attached to a chain made of plant fibres. The chain begins and ends with a large white mussel shell.

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Übersee-Museum Bremen
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Cataloguing data

Object type
money (objects)
Dimensions
General: 0.6 × 108 cm
Material/Technique
Flying fox tooth; plant fibre; mussel shell; carved; drilled; rope work
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D07477

Provenance and sources

when
1800-1910 (?)
where
Solomon Islands (?)
who
Ludwig Cohn (de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$Begin@28abc791 - de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$End@7498331c)

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