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Description: | Human lower jaw bone attached to a length of rope with string. From it hang numerous looped strings of dentalium shells. The teeth have been removed from the mandible, and it has been pigmented red.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 8.162 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | shell ritual & belief: cult of the dead string human bone cord | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-3956 | Go to resource |
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