African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021

Lot 900

A Boiken bride currency hombulie

Estimate £600 - £800

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Description

A Boiken bride currency hombulie

Papua New Guinea

giant turbo marmoratus snail shell and fibre with pigment and cassowary feathers,

27.5cm high.

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.

Collected in the Yangoru area of the Mountain Arapesh region in 1974.