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 strands of either six or seven blue or red beads
43cm. long
Cf. another very similar head band collected by Kreich, formerly in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, illustrated by Biebuyck, D., and Van den Abbeele, N., The Power of Headdresses, Brussels, 1984, p.236, Pl.189