Three New Guinea shell ornaments including a bracelet carved squares and crosses

Three New Guinea shell ornaments

including a bracelet carved squares and crosses, inscribed L.1699/451. 111031. Kibler, Waigeo.,

7cm diameter,

and two necklaces; one with twenty four small drop shape pendants with glass beads and fibre, Mendi, Highlands, the other with eight drop shape pendants on a fibre and cloth strand. (3)

Provenance

Christie's, Amsterdam, 24 May 2000, lots 285, 286, 301 part.