Necklace made from sperm whale tooth and cord
Necklace made from sperm whale tooth and cord made from coir and human hair, owned by a female chief, from Rurutu, Austral Islands, late 18th or early 19th century, collected 1821-24 by G Bennet of the London Missionary Society, previously in the collection of J Hooper, in the Musee de Tahiti et des Iles, or Te Fare Manaha, at Punaauia, on the island of Tahiti, in the Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia. The Museum of Tahiti and the Islands was opened in 1974 and displays collections of nature and anthropology, habitations and artefacts, social and religious life and the history of French Polynesia. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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Anthropology Artefacts Austral Bennet Coir Collected Collections Cord Displays Fare Habitations Hooper Iles Manaha Missionary Polynesia Previously Punaauia Sperm Tahiti Tooth Whale Windward
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