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LEI NIHO PALAOA
Details
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
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
Provenance
J.L. Brenchley, resident in Hawaii 1850-54
Maidstone Museum, Kent
James Hooper, no. 336, sold Christie's London, 21 June, 1977, lot 202
Maidstone Museum, Kent
James Hooper, no. 336, sold Christie's London, 21 June, 1977, lot 202
Literature
Phelps, S.J., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p.418, Pl.39