ABELAM
Details
Two New Guinea shell and fibre pectoral pendants
Abelam
One woven as a face with cowrie shell eyes, nose and borders of nassa shells, red pigment, two boar's tusks as horns above; the other as a more stylised face, the eyes as circlets on triangular panels, boar's tusks through the nose septum and six others forming a panel behind, three pendent panels below, each with three cowries, the whole with red pigment and attached nassa shells, each on long woven fibre strap
28cm. and 38cm. long (2)
Abelam
One woven as a face with cowrie shell eyes, nose and borders of nassa shells, red pigment, two boar's tusks as horns above; the other as a more stylised face, the eyes as circlets on triangular panels, boar's tusks through the nose septum and six others forming a panel behind, three pendent panels below, each with three cowries, the whole with red pigment and attached nassa shells, each on long woven fibre strap
28cm. and 38cm. long (2)
Exhibited
Art Papou, Brussels, 1979, fig.4.9 for the first