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Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 2760 Necklace of whales teeth, G. H. Kingsley bequest. Show Case number 1'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '1/207'.
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Author: Lucie Carreau

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Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 2760 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Necklace of whales teeth. Kingsley bequest.' [added in black ink:] '(Centenary Exhibition)'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '1/207'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 1'. A small round red sticker pasted to the card.
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Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Necklace of whales teeth.
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Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'The Proper Study of Mankind: Great Anthropological Collections in Cambridge' (known at MAA as the 'Centenary Exhibition') at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 12 March - 06 May 1984.
Event Date 12/3/1984
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Maudslay Gallery, Introduction to Anthropology, Case 6 (Baron von Hügel's Fijian Cabinet, object No 6), between 24/05/1989 and 03/10/2011'.
Event Date 24/5/1989
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Waseisei. Necklace formed of 44 tusks carved from whale teeth, pierced and the top and strung on a cord of twisted vegetable fibre. An additional length of 3-ply plaited coir is woven around the cord and between the top of the tusks. Some of the coir lashing has started to break at the front and is shedding. The tusks are very long, thin, curving outwards and tapering. The tusks are of a very light cream colour at the front and back. 'Z. 2760' inscribed in black ink on the last tusk from the right.
Event Date 26/10/2012
Author: maa