African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021
Lot 886
A Huli back ornament
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £220
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Description
A Huli back ornament
Highlands, Papua New Guinea
hornbill beak, boar tusks, fibre and red pigment,
22.5cm long.
Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.
Collected in Koroba, Southern Highlands, 1974.