Tribal Art & Antiquities - 19 Feb 2020
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An Admiralty Islands dance wand Melanesia animal femur bone with incised hatch decoration
An Admiralty Islands dance wand
Melanesia
animal femur bone with incised hatch decoration, the end pierced for attachment and the other later inscribed ADMIRALTY ISL., and hung with strands of shells, beads, seeds and fibre,
33.5cm long.