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Breast Plate/Pendant (Kapkap)

1900-1932

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Breast Plate/Pendant (Kapkap)

1900-1932

Physical Qualities Tortoise shell on tridacna shell base, fiber, 3 11/16 x 11 1/8 in. (9.3 x 28.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.143
(Kap-kap) with abstract design
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
"The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art", January 7th-March 4th 1956, Baltimore Museum of Art
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art" , BMA 1956 pg. 36. cat no. 143.

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