Small necklet of alternating garnets and canine teeth

Made:: 1881-1920 in Borneo

SMG00166959
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Small necklet of alternating garnets and canine teeth, probably amuletic, Dyak, from Borneo, 1881-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A656071

Materials:: garnet and canine

Measurements:: double, approx: length 185 mm
largest tooth: width 35 mm

type:: necklet

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Small necklet of alternating garnets and canine teeth

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