Lot Essay
When sold by Sotheby's London (December 18, 1978, lot 59) the armlet was described as a "wrist guard used in archery of a type used by the Tugeri".
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TUGERI
Details
A New Guinea basketry armlet
Tugeri
The woven cylinder of split cane, a tuft of cassowary feathers, their stems bound with fibre, attached to one side
armlet 17cm. high
Tugeri
The woven cylinder of split cane, a tuft of cassowary feathers, their stems bound with fibre, attached to one side
armlet 17cm. high
Provenance
Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt-Rivers
Exhibited
Art Papou, Brussels, 1979, p.138, fig.10.15