A Solomon Islands disc ornament Melanesia shell with faint scroll and circle engravings

A Solomon Islands disc ornament

Melanesia

shell with faint scroll and circle engravings, pierced for attachment,

6.6cm diameter,

a cowrie shell with a two shell rings joined with a fibre cord, a disc shell necklace, a tusk nose ornament, six shell rings, three shell ear plugs, two Solomon Islands shell scrapers, inscribed, a Fiji shell anklet, faintly inscribed, on a stand, a Solomon Islands shell and fibre armband, a shell and coconut band, three coconut bracelets, a tusk ornament and a tusk. (23)

Provenance

Part - Robert A Lever. Collected working as a government scientist specialising in coral reefs between 1931 and 1936.

Woolley and Wallis, Tribal Art, 19th June 2014, lot 1588.