Three shell and bead headbands or necklaces
Three shell and bead headbands or necklaces

NEW GUINEA AND NEW BRITAIN

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Three shell and bead headbands or necklaces
New Guinea and New Britain
One of twenty-four small drop-shaped shell sections strung between a band of red glass beads and finely woven fibre base, Mendi, Highlands; a headband of loose strands of Job's tears and castor oil seeds, the central bailer shell disc with yellow glass bead; and a palm spathe panel with applied spondylus shell oblong sections, quill sections and nassa shells, probably New Britain
each about 30cm. long (3)