A fine Marquesas Islands teeth and bead head band

PEUE EI

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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

Provenance

Collected on the voyage of the Korrigane, 1934-36

Exhibited

Ta'aroa. L'Univers polynesien, Brussels, 1982, p.122, no.90

Lot Essay

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

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