Niho palaoa (whale tooth pendent)
- Object status:
- Deaccessioned
- Museum number:
- 11-1903
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110001903
- Accession number:
- Acc.587
- Description:
- Whale ivory, perforated.
- Donor:
- Mrs. Jackson R. Myers
- Collection place:
- Kauai, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Hawaii; Kauai; Kauai
- Culture or time period:
- Hawaiian
- Collector:
- Jackson R. Myers
- Collection date:
- 1900-1917
- Materials:
- Ivory (material) (whale ivory)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Pendants (jewelry)
- Function:
- 3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
- Accession date:
- 1922
- Department:
- Oceania
- Comment:
- Description: "Part of "lei niho palaoa" - attached to coils of braided human hair." Lei niho palaoa is "insignia of extremely high ranking chiefs (both sexes) and worn as a pendant on the breast." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns)
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