Five new guinea palm spathe wrist bands

GULF OF PAPUA

Details

Five new guinea palm spathe wrist bands
Gulf of Papua
Each rectangular panel with applied split cane on black and white grounds within reddened borders, two decorated with faces within sunbursts, another with sunbursts and two with scroll ornament, fibre tassels to borders
22cm. wide (5)

Provenance

W.D. Webster
Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt-Rivers

Exhibited

Art Papou, Brussels, 1979, p.140, fig.10.16

Lot Essay

Cf. Edge-Partington, J., An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress Etc., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands, 1890, p.314, no.1, for a similar ornament from the Elema district in the Kennedy Collection, now in the British Museum

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