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Breast jewellery
The hook-shaped pendant made of whale tooth with bundles of braided hair on both sides was one of the typical jewellery pieces of Hawaiian nobles. In the course of the 19th century whale tooth was increasingly replaced by imported walrus ivory. Text: Ulrich Menter
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Object type
Breast jewellery
Dimensions
Width: 9.5 cm
Height: 24.5 cm
Depth: 4.8 cm
Height: 24.5 cm
Depth: 4.8 cm
Material/Technique
Human hair
, Walzahn, Plant fibre
Current location
Linden-Museum
Stuttgart
Inventory number
087357
Provenance and sources
when
19th century
where
Hawaii
when
1913
Provenance
On the way
from South America to Sāmoa, Augustin Krämer (1865-1941) spent a short
time in Hawai'i in 1897. He established a collection of Hawaiian objects
there, 126 of which found their way to the Linden Museum. Text: Ulrich
Menter
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