Lot Essay
The headband
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PEUE EI
Details
a fine marquesas islands teeth and bead head band
peue ei
The two interwoven strands of twisted coconut fibre suspending dense tassels of pierced porpoise teeth on strings of either six or seven blue or red beads
50cm. long
peue ei
The two interwoven strands of twisted coconut fibre suspending dense tassels of pierced porpoise teeth on strings of either six or seven blue or red beads
50cm. long
Provenance
Kriech, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, no. 117668
Literature
Biebuyck, D., and Van den Abbeele, N., The Power of Headdresses, Brussels, 1984, p.236, Pl.189
Exhibited
Ta'aroa, l'Univers Polynesien, Brussels, 1982, no.90 with another similar headband from the voyage of the Korrigane