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NEW BRITAIN AND ADMIRALTY ISLANDS
Details
Three combs
New Britain and Admiralty Islands
The first with feathered finial with red cloth panel edged with white beads, suspending a rosette of porpoise teeth and pearl shell, some coloured beads; the triangular gum finial of each Admiralty Islands comb with typical rosette decoration in black and white on a red ground, twelve and fourteen tines respectively, one inscribed St. Gabriel
26cm., 27cm. and 33cm. long (3)
New Britain and Admiralty Islands
The first with feathered finial with red cloth panel edged with white beads, suspending a rosette of porpoise teeth and pearl shell, some coloured beads; the triangular gum finial of each Admiralty Islands comb with typical rosette decoration in black and white on a red ground, twelve and fourteen tines respectively, one inscribed St. Gabriel
26cm., 27cm. and 33cm. long (3)
Provenance
L.t-Gen. A.H.L.-F. Pitt-Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, acquired from W.D.Webster in 1898, for the last