Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 20th September 2023
Lot 1255
Four Amazon necklaces
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £1800
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Description
Four Amazon necklaces
Brazil
including two with peccary teeth and fibre, the smaller with red cloth, 37cm and 54cm long, two with shell and fibre, ten necklaces with various animal teeth, another with glass beads and claws, and other necklaces and anklets of seeds and plant fibre, two armadillo tail bangles, an implement with a row of teeth, and a comb like implement. (qty)
Provenance
Red cloth necklace - by repute Christie's, London, Tribal Art, 11 December 1988, lot 13.
Romy Rey Collection, London.