two new guinea vests

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two new guinea vests
One a Mambara mourning costume of woven fibre sewn with meandering bands of black, white and brown seeds, from the Mambara; the other sewn with dense rows of Job's tears on fibre ground
25cm. and 26cm. long (2)
Provenance
Tischner, Director of the Hamburg Museum for the first, A. Speyer, Wiesbaden, for the second

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