Monkey Teeth Necklace
Unidentified Jívaro maker
collected 1920
Monkey teeth and white beads
Overall: 14 3/16 × 1 9/16 in. (36 × 4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Henry C. Reed, Class of 1931
29.4.3988
Geography
Place Made: Ecuador, South America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Henry Clinton Reed (1907-1993) in Pastaza River, Ecuador, 1926; given to present collection, 1929.
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