Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 90
Four Papua New Guinea boar's tusk chest ornaments
Estimate £150 - £200 | Hammer £152
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Description
Four Papua New Guinea boar's tusk chest ornaments
including an Abelam double pair, with woven fibre and reed, 33cm long, one Tambanum, Middle Sepik, with Job's tears, glass beads and nassa shells, 46.5cm long, another with glass beads and shells, 39cm long, and with a silver metal coloured mount with chain, 45cm long, two Huli, Papua New Guinea hornbill beak and boar's tusk back ornaments, one with red pigment, 19cm and 16cm long, and a small collection of pigs teeth and tusks.
Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of the Solomon Islands in Israel.