Sacrificial Boar's Jaw from Vanuatu

A Sacrifical Boar's Jaw, Wujumwel Village, Pentecost Island,…
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A Sacrifical Boar's Jaw, Wujumwel Village, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, (early twentieth century), boar's bone, teeth and tusk, 22 cm long. Provenance: The Peter Elliott Collection, Sydney, Collected in the field by Dr Peter Elliott, in the early 1970s. This sacrifical jaw has one and a half circle tusks.

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