Lot Essay
Cf. Reche, O., Der Kaiserin Augusta-Fluss, Hamburg, 1913, p.100, fig.46 for a necklace similar to the last, said to be of shark vertibrae
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NEW BRITAIN AND TONGA
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Four necklaces of shell and vertebrae
New Britain and Tonga
The first a long strand of cassowary quill sections and nassa shells; the two Tongan necklaces of coral shell discs, and a fourth of large circular vertebrae suspending two nuts and wooden cylinders (4)
New Britain and Tonga
The first a long strand of cassowary quill sections and nassa shells; the two Tongan necklaces of coral shell discs, and a fourth of large circular vertebrae suspending two nuts and wooden cylinders (4)