a fiji whaletooth necklace

WASEISEI, WASEKASEKA

Details

a fiji whaletooth necklace
waseisei, wasekaseka
Composed of thirty-two very long curved sections of whale tooth, pierced and threaded on twisted fibre
longest tooth 25cm.

Provenance

James Hooper, no.882, acquired from the Birmingham Museum in 1931 Christie's London, June 19, 1979, lot 109

Literature

Phelps, S. J., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Afric and the Americas, the James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, no. 822

Lot Essay

Cf. a very similar necklace with such long slender whale tooth sections in the Hooper collection (Phelps, S.J., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, the James Hooper Collection , no.822) from the Birmingham Museum.

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