prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1146

PRM0001349135179Breast ornament, of whalebone, from Tonga; part of the Forster collection (Forster 62; 1886.1.1146)

Roughly circular breast ornament of whalebone, approximately 460 mm in diameter and 8 mm in thickness. Three holes have been drilled through the upper edge.

 

  PRM0001349145179Reverse
PRM0001291315179Breastplate (with scale)
PRM0001296245179Detail of surface of bone
PRM0001296905179Ashmolean label
PRM0001296915179Older Ashmolean label
PRM0001296925179Unknown label
PRM0001296935179Unknown label
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