Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2023
Lot 1688
A Boiken bride currency hombulie
Estimate £400 - £600
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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.