A fine hawaii hair necklace with whale ivory pendant
A fine hawaii hair necklace with whale ivory pendant

LEI NIHO PALAOA

细节
A fine hawaii hair necklace with whale ivory pendant
lei niho palaoa
The hook-shaped pendant inscribed on the reverse Lei Palaoa Hawaii and label numbered 322, creamy golden patina, suspended between bunches of finely-plaited strands of human hair, olona fibre ties
hook 9cm. long
来源
J.L. Brenchley, resident in Hawaii 1850-54
Maidstone Museum, Kent
James Hooper, no. 336, sold Christie's London, 21 June, 1977, lot 202
出版
Phelps, S.J., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p.418, Pl.39