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Earring made from the beak of a hornbill
Earring made from hornbill beak
Sabaw is a pendant made from the beak of a helmeted hornbill, called anggang gading. This is the helmet part or the tubercle on the beak of a certain species of hornbill, the Rhinoplax vigil. The front part of the helmet is, like the beak, sand coloured and the back part is red. That piece was cut to create a pendant with a red band on the side and a sand-coloured top. At the tip a small part of t…
Type of item
- Object Type: ear ornament
- Earring
- Ear ornament
- ear ornament
Date
- 1900/1925
Medium
- Material: animal origin materials
- Animal product
- animal origin materials
Type of item
- Object Type: ear ornament
- Earring
- Ear ornament
- ear ornament
Date
- 1900/1925
Medium
- Material: animal origin materials
- Animal product
- animal origin materials
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1900/1925
Provenance
- 1940-01-01
- Schenking
Identifier
- Oorsieraad
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- red
- hair (material)
- wax
- amber (fossil resin)
- carving
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z