Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Austria

 

Thought to have been collected by Henry Balfour

Given to the Museum in 1900

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Glass imitation teeth, Austria

These beads are imitation human teeth made from glass. They have been perforated for stringing on necklaces. They were produced by an Austrian glassworks, called Sachse & Co, for export to the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo).

View database record 1900.27.2