Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21st February 2018
Lot 646
A Caroline Islands girdle Mortlock Islands
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1400
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Description
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.