African, Oceanic & Art of the Americas - 28th April 2022
Lot 1284
Two Eastern Highlands armbands
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £70
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Description
Two Eastern Highlands armbands
Bena Bena area, Papua New Guinea
woven fibre with pigment and applied nassa shells, the larger with a shell ring and fibre strands,
26cm and 17cm long,
an Abelam chest ornament with boar tucks, 23cm long, and a Highlands chest ornament, bark and fibre with dye and pigment, 37cm long. (4)
Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.
Collected in 1978.