Necklace
Mount Hagen
Western Highlands area
Papua New Guinea
Traditional
Grass and dog teeth
Overall: 51 15/16 in. (132 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ross Woodbridge, Class of 1936
179.21.25916
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
Anthropology 50.34, Native American and Indigenous Studies 30.28, Peoples of Oceania, Brinker Ferguson, Spring 2024
Provenance
Possibly collected by Major Thomas Upson and Captain Andrew M. Sinclair; given to [Thomas] Ross Woodbridge (1913-unknown), Class of 1936, during the time he was the Field Director of the American Red Cross in Papua New Guinea, 1944-1945; given to present collection, 1979.
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