Necklace

P1

From: Borneo | Sarawak | Baram District

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Native Name Tenggak
Object Number P1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Iban
Provenience Borneo | Sarawak | Baram District
Date Made Before 1897
Section Oceanian
Materials Glass | Stone | Tooth | Fish Jaw Bone | Plant Material
Description

Bead necklace. Tenggak. Worn by men. Symmetrical groupings of light blue, yellow, and patterned green trade beads with, at the ends, tassels of dark blue and tiny, mostly black, beads, with white and colored beads at tips, and a tiny fish jaw bone.

Length 63 cm
Credit Line Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898

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