IDNO

D.98873.GCUM

Description

“4 ear-ornaments and 4 large Neck Ornaments of Whale’s tooth on a large pearl shell.”
“11 inches diameter” (on breast-plate in the middle). [Gordon Cumming’s annotation, JD 6/1/2012]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica [Original Artist]

Collector / Expedition

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Date

circa 1876 - 1877

Collection Name

Gordon Cumming Collection

Source

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica

Format

Painting

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This album has been transferred from CUMMA’s Object Collections (original accession number Z 4152), into the Photographic Collections, and catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

P.98869.GCUM to P.99045.GCUM are in A.169.GCUM.