A Caroline Islands girdle Mortlock Islands

A Caroline Islands girdle

Mortlock Islands, Micronesia

with three bands of nassarius shells woven to a coconut leaf and fibre strands, inscribed with number 49267 with a metal edge tag inscribed 49267 Thiel, Gurtel. Mortlock Ins and with a card display label,

29cm diameter.

Provenance

Governor Thiel, Linden Museum, Stuttgart

Christie's, Amsterdam, 24 May 2000, lot 220.