Artifact Number:
 04922

Object:
Pendant, niho palaoa
Niho Palaoa

Material:
 Ivory (whale)

Dimensions:
 

Origin:
  Kauai, Hawaii, Polynesia

Comments:
 Hook Pendants. Niho palaoa from an old woman of Wahiawa, Kauai. Bought Oct. 8, 1886 from Mrs. Mary P. Ailau for $8. (Emerson) Whale tooth. Height 15.5 cm; shank max. width 4.25 cm; hook max. width 5.61 cm; hook depth 9.20 cm. Round and straight hole (d. 0.7cm). Figure 262. (Summers) Appears to have been worked with metal; may have been smoked. Large surface crack in curve of tongue.



Collection Name: J.S. Emerson Collection

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