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FIG. 17 (right): Breastplate,
civavonovono.
Fiji. Early 19th century.
Black pearlshell, whale ivory, coconut
fi ber cord. D: 23.6 cm.
Mark Blackburn Collection.
3. See Fergus Clunie, “Tapua: ‘Polished Ivory Shrines’ of
Tongan Gods,” in Journal of the Polynesian Society, Special
Issue: Tabua and Tapua: Whale Teeth in Fiji and Tonga, vol.
122, no. 2 (June 2013): 161–210; 175.
4. See Phyllis Herda and Billie Lythberg, Journal of Polynesian
Society, vol. 123, no. 3 (September 2014): 277–300; 283.
5. Donated to the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,
Massachusetts, by Joseph Winn Jr. in 1834. See Steven
Hooper in Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacifi c (2016): 180–181,
entry 116.
6. Collection Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
University of Harvard; see Caldeira, Hellmich, Kaeppler,
Kam, and Rose, Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: Nā Hulu
Ali’i, (2015): 158–159, entry 14.