Pendant
This type of whale tooth pendant contains pairs of holes for wearing on the chest, this is characteristic of the New Georgia island group. It is considered a valuable and like shell rings were used for exchange and kept as heirlooms.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 83/2005/8
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- sperm whale tooth
- Common Name
- pendant
- Simple Name
- ornament
- Production County
- New Georgia
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Year High
- 1967
