African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021
Lot 882
A collection of nine Melanesia lime containers
Estimate £200 - £300
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Description
A collection of nine Melanesia lime containers
Papua New Guinea
coconut shell, gourds and bamboo, including Sepik River with applied shells and a bone spatula, Massim with a stopper with a tusk like finial, Abelam with a plug stopper, Lake Sentani, one with an associated woven fibre and tusk stopper,
the longest 40cm. (13)
Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.
Collected in the mid 1970s.