Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 66
Six Papua New Guinea tooth body ornaments
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £229
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Description
Six Papua New Guinea tooth body ornaments
on fibre, five with shells,
the longest 69cm,
a Highlands tapa and shell ornament, 50cm long, a woven fibre bag, with applied cassowary feathers, 57cm long, two pairs of boars tusks, a single boars tusk, a shell bracelet, a woven fibre armband, a shell scoop/ornament, a fibre and shell body ornament, a shell disc necklace, 110cm long, two shell and seed necklaces and a cassowary bone lime spatula, with carved and pigment decoration, 27cm long, on a stand. (20)
Provenance
Zbyszek Plocki Collection, London.