Pendant

Description

Canoe-shaped pendant of cachalot tooth, perforated at each end and attached to a chain-pattern plait of root tendrils: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century

Museum reference

A.1896.58

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Pendant

Production information

Fiji, Polynesia

Date

Late 19th century

Style / Culture

Fijian
Pacific Peoples
Melanesian

Materials

Sperm whale tooth, Root

Physical description

Cachalot tooth (sperm-whale); chain-pattern plait of root tendrils