Title
mandible.pig
Identifier
Description
Lower jaw of domestic boar, tusks fully recurved & re-entering jaw. Reid(1912): 'Lower jaw of domestic boar, aged sixteen years and seven months, killed December 1910.'
Date
Early: 1894 Late: 1910
Format
L: 255 mm W: 182 mm
Relation
bone pig.tooth (several)
Abstract
Power depended upon the acquisition of wealth with which to buy advancement in exclusive graded societies. The standard form of wealth was pigs with exceptionally long and circular lower canine tusks, caused by the artificial removal of the upper grinders.
Dairy bowl made at Seaton Pottery. The old course of the River Don is depicted. The rural nature of Old Aberdeen is emphasised with the herdboy seen in the group of three figures.
Dairy bowl made at Seaton Pottery. The old course of the River Don is depicted. The rural nature of Old Aberdeen is emphasised with the herdboy seen in the group of three figures.
UUID
2567e181-cfee-4f3b-b04d-c2c41e8b7a6e