Anklet with Bundles of Hair
Unidentified maker (Marquesas Islands)
Human hair bound with coconut fiber cord
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i
41.10.7466
Geography
Place Made: Marquesas Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Oahu College [early Missionary collection]; given to Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 1900; received in Exchange #22 to the present collection, 1941.
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