Anklet with Bundles of Hair

Unidentified maker (Marquesas Islands)

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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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