Tattooing implement

Description

Tattooing implement with plain reed handle and narrow toothed bone head lashed on at right angles: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Museum reference

A.1924.739

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Tattooing implement

Production information

Fiji, Polynesia

Style / Culture

Fijian
Pacific Peoples
Melanesian

Materials

Reed, Bone

Physical description

Plain reed handle, narrow toothed bone head lashed on at right angles

Associations

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