拍品专文
The loin cloth with old label inscribed: Dea Katchee Loin Cloth, secured to the waist by the dea Lanoa New Guinea
细节
a samoa girdle and sixteen other artefacts
The girdle of human hair strung with coloured glass beads, old label; two lengths of Samoa plaited coir twine, one with old label; an Admiralty Islands tapa cloth apron suspending tassels of nuts, Job's tears and shell beads; a New Guinea belt of woven orchid fibre in yellow and brown; a New Guinea necklace of nuts strung on fibre length; six necklaces of twisted fibre suspending shells; a New Guinea belt of painted tapa cloth; a whisk of cassowary feathers with carved wood handle; a New Guinea loin cloth with old label; a Mende (New Guinea) apron suspending fibre tassels; and a shell scraper (17)
The girdle of human hair strung with coloured glass beads, old label; two lengths of Samoa plaited coir twine, one with old label; an Admiralty Islands tapa cloth apron suspending tassels of nuts, Job's tears and shell beads; a New Guinea belt of woven orchid fibre in yellow and brown; a New Guinea necklace of nuts strung on fibre length; six necklaces of twisted fibre suspending shells; a New Guinea belt of painted tapa cloth; a whisk of cassowary feathers with carved wood handle; a New Guinea loin cloth with old label; a Mende (New Guinea) apron suspending fibre tassels; and a shell scraper (17)
来源
Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, for the loin cloth, Rev. Henry Gee, missionary in Samoa until 1864, for the Samoan girdle and twine