Necklace

Description

Necklace, composed of two strands of square-plaited vegetable fibre ornamented with small white and coloured beads and small pendant of sperm whale ivory: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Museum reference

A.1924.780

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Necklace

Production information

Fiji, Polynesia

Style / Culture

Fijian
Pacific Peoples
Melanesian

Materials

Sperm whale tooth, Vegetable fibre

Physical description

Sperm-whale tooth / ivory, vegetable fibre

Associations

Collector: Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica, Miss, 1837 - 1924