‡ Three kap kap pendants New Ireland

‡ Three kap kap pendants

New Ireland, Melanesia

shell, turtle shell and fibre; the circular discs with applied pierced fret circular panels, the larger with a leaf pouch, the middle one with a button fixing, one with a hand written label Kapkap Neumecklenburg,

14cm, 12.2cm and 7.5cm diameter. (3)

Provenance

Charles Ratton, Paris.

Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 1996, lot 194.