Loan (Exhibition)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, October 15 2016- February 12 2017, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Necklace of whales teeth. Double row.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Note on catalogue card: "The only one seen and probably very old." Also, note stating that Roth does not know this village.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
This necklace might have been collected by Anatole von Hügel when visiting Sagunu between 13 January and 18 January 1876 (Baron's Journals, p. 258-60).
Event Date 10/10/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 2762 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Sangunu. Mba river & province. Viti Levu. Necklace of whales teeth, double row of. "The only one seen and probably very old." [added in pencil:] 'Sangunu not known by Roth'. [stamped in blue ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION CIRCA 1875.' [added in blue ink:] '1923 H 130'. [added in black ink:] '(Centenary Exhibition)'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '1/216'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 1'. A small round red sticker pasted to the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 2762 SANGUNU MBA MBA river + province. Viti Levu. Necklace of whales teeth, double row of. "The only one seen and probably very old". Show Case number 1'. [added in blue ink:] 'C + D. A. VON HUGEL'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '1/216'. [added in pencil:] 'Sangunu not known to Roth'.
Event Date 10/10/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Necklace (?sisi) formed of two rows of carved sections of whale teeth (back row: 30 teeth; front row: 29 teeth), pierced at the top and strung on a cord formed of 9 strands of 3-ply plaited coir, themselves plaited into a 3-ply plaited cord. An additional length of twisted vegetable fibre is woven around the cord and between the top of the teeth. Both front and back rows of teeth are slightly curving outwards. The teeth are a light yellow colour at the front and a darker shade of yellow at the back. 'Z. 2762' inscribed in black ink on the penultimate tooth from the left. '1923.H130.' inscribed in black ink on the last tooth from the left.
Event Date 10/10/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (CMS Description)
Ivory necklace
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Conservation ()
CON.2013.17 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa

Conservation (Soft Mount )
CON.2016.3512 | Soft Mount
Event Date 18/8/2016
Author: Rachel Howie

Loan (Exhibition)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 15/12/2019 to 19/07/2020, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Event Date 15/12/2019
Author: Katrina Dring

Loan (Exhibition)
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachussetts, 12/09/2020 to 03/01/2021, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Event Date 12/9/2020
Author: Katrina Dring