a fine Ninigo shell necklace
Composed of twenty-six orange sea urchin spines strung with vertebrae and some cream-coloured beads on twisted fibre, with old label
45cm. long
Provenance
Fellmann, Linden Museum, Stuttgart
Lot Essay
Fellmann was a missionary and successor to George Brown in Melanesia. Ninigo is a Micronesian outlier north of Wuvulu (Matty Island)