a fine Ninigo shell necklace
a fine Ninigo shell necklace

Details
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)

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