Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 91
A small collection of Pacific shells
Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £76
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Description
A small collection of Pacific shells
the longest 14.7cm long,
a gourd and a crystal specimen. (23)
Provenance
Collected by a relative of Daphne Whuten (Sydney, Australia) in Papua in the late 1800s. A surveyor.
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of the Solomon Islands in Israel.