African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021
Lot 904
A Middle Sepik arm ornament
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £120
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Description
A Middle Sepik arm ornament
Papua New Guinea
cassowary bone with a carved stylised head,
15cm long,
two Papua New Guinea bone lime spatulas, the longer with a carved bird head top with inset shell eyes, 36cm and 13cm long and a crocodile tooth, 12cm long.
Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.
The arm ornament and the tooth collected in the Middle Sepik in 1974.