a new guinea necklace, a kapkap and two shell artefacts

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a new guinea necklace, a kapkap and two shell artefacts
The necklace of three crocodile teeth on fibre cord, old label; the kapkap with pierced and carved wood panel on bailer shell oval base; a shell pendant cut lengthwise, probably Solomon Islands; and a shell implement
The kapkap 15cm. wide (4)

Provenance

Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers, previously Savage Collection for the last

Lot Essay

Cf. Edge-Partington, J., An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress Etc., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands,Part 1, Manchester, 1890, p.304, fig.2, for a similar kapkap with coconut panel from Brumer Island

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