Bracelet
Bracelet (kupe’e ho’okalakala) worn in pairs by male dancers. These items evoke the masculine power of boars which are linked to major gods.
Collected 1776 - 80 by Captain James Cook
Collected 1776 - 80 by Captain James Cook
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1278
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Material
- boar tuskolana fibre
- Common Name
- bracelet
- Simple Name
- bracelet
- Production County
- Hawai’i
- Production Country
- Hawaiian Islands (United States of America)
- Production Year High
- 1779
