Tooth pendant
- Description
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Part of a high status necklace.
Donated by the family of Dr John Teschemaker to RAMM in 1869. Teschemaker’s family were plantation owners in Guyana (formerly British Guiana). - Accession Loan No.
- 39/2000/1
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Common Name
- tooth pendant
- Simple Name
- ornament
- Full Name
- jaguar tooth necklace element
- Dimensions
- whole length 85 mm
- Cultural Group
- Arawak
- Production Town
- Essequibo
- Production County
- Demerara
- Production Country
- Guyana
- Production Area Region
- South America
- Production Continent
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Family Group
- Material
- jaguar tooth
- Function Name
- personal ornament
- Function Detail
- neckwear
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Collection Continent
- America
