African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021
Lot 889
A Highlands chest ornament
Estimate £150 - £200 | Hammer £150
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Description
A Highlands chest ornament
Papua New Guinea
shell with a fibre strap,
15.5cm long,
a Middle Sepik dog tooth necklace, a Middle Sepik boar tusk chest ornament and eight Maprik area trochus shell bangles, one with incised markings. (11)
Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.
Collected in 1974.