Presentation Whale Tooth (tabua buli)

Presentation Whale Tooth (tabua buli)

Fiji, early 19th century

Sperm whale ivory and fiber
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge: 1931.219
Collected by Alfred Maudslay, 1875–80

EX.8785.126 Photo (c) Museum Associates/ LACMA

Tabua buli are carved and polished into crescentic shapes.