Niho palaoa (whale tooth)
- Object status:
- Deaccessioned
- Museum number:
- 11-36984
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110036984
- Accession number:
- Acc.1345
- Description:
- Made of whale ivory. Perforated.
- Donor:
- Arthur Rodgers and Mr. Carrol J. Rodgers
- Collection place:
- Hawaiian Islands
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Hawaii
- Culture or time period:
- Hawaiian
- Collector:
- Arthur Rodgers
- Collection date:
- 1881
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Pendants (jewelry)
- Function:
- 3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
- Accession date:
- 1960
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- length 4.5 inches and width 3 inches
- Comment:
- Description: "Palaoa" "Body ornament" "Part of lei niho palaoa attached to coils of braided human hair" (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns)
- Loans:
- S1987-1988 #10: Bowers Museum (August 1987–February 16, 1988)
- Images:
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