Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Two Papua New Guinea shell armbands
Melanesia
one with remains of fibre, shell disc beads and a seed pod, both inscribed Armlet. New Guinea. d.d. H. Ling Roth. N.G.20 and N.G.21.,
7.3cm and 7.6cm wide,
another Papua New Guinea shell armband, with a faded label for KENNEDY COLLECTION and a printed label ABBEY MUSEUM NEW BARNET, numbered 108, 8cm wide, a Papua New Guinea shell ornament, with a carved edge, inscribed New Guinea Speak Bequest [1932.523], with a printed label ABBEY MUSEUM NEW BARNET, 7.4cm diameter, and a Solomon Islands shell bead necklace, with a label SOLOMON GROUP and ABBEY MUSEUM NEW BARNET, 21cm long, a Solomon Islands shell ornament, inscribed N. Bougainville..., 3.7cm wide, a Highlands chest ornament, boar tusks, shells, seeds and fibre, 20cm wide, an Abelam cassowary bone dagger, with printed label ABBEY MUSEUM NEW BARNET, 31.5cm long, and porcupine, woven fibre and cowrie shell dagger, with remains of pigment, 24.5cm long. (9)

Provenance
Two armbands - Henry Ling Roth, UK. (1955 - 1925) Anthropologist and museum curator.
One armband - Kennedy Collection, UK.
PNG ornament - Speak Bequest.
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.