A Fiji trumpet davui Melanesia shell and coconut fibre sennit

A Fiji trumpet davui

Melanesia

shell and coconut fibre sennit, the shell with a pierced mouthpiece, with painted inventory number H.757 and 51 and with a hand written sticker Major Douglas-Jones, High Salvington Mill, Worthing, Sx,

40cm long.

Provenance

Admiral Sir Crawford Caffin (1812 - 1883)

Major Douglas-Jones, Sussex, UK

James T. Hooper, Arundel, UK, acquired in 1956.

Christie's, Melanesia & Polynesian Art from the James Hooper Collection, June 19, 1979, lot 133

Literature

Steven Phelps. Art and Artefacts of Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p.187, plate 100.