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CultureToraja peoples
Titles
  • Necklace
DateLate 19th–early 20th century
PlaceIndonesia
MediumGold and cloth
Dimensions13 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (33.7 × 14 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2004.2352
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
206M Arnold Gallery
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Provenance[Francois Rabier, by 1993][1]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913-2008), Houston, 1994-2004; given to MFAH, 2004.

[1]Glassell Inventory, described on 8/20/93.
Published References Frances Marzio, "The Glassell Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Masterworks of Pre-Columbian, Indonesian, and African Gold" (Houston: MFAH; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 274-275.

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