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a rare tonga bracelet
With seven scutes of a marine creature and blue and white glass beads strung on twisted fibre
18cm. long

Lot Essay

Cf. a bracelet with three similar pendants and of similar construction in Sparrman's collection, Stockholm, collected on Captain Cook's Second Voyage (1772-1775) on Tongatabu (Soderstrom, J., Cook Voyage Artifacts, Stockholm, 1939, p.42, PL.X.2)

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