Details
PACIFIC JEWELLERY: a New Guinea mouth ornament, the wood base with scalloped edge with applied boars tusk sections, the front with bands of gum inset with abrus seeds about two shell discs, native repair, twisted fibre suspension cord, deficiencies, 25cm. long; four New Guinea boars' tusk bracelets, each of two tusks joined by fibre; a New Guinea plaited fibre armband suspending four conus shell rings; a New Guinea necklace with seven strands of seeds on twisted fibre cord, a Niue necklace with four strands of small yellow shells, old label; two other necklaces of small shells; a conus shell with attached length of plaited fibre, old label; a conus shell disc; two shells; a shell pendant on fibre cord; and a boar's tusk (16)
Provenance
Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers
The fibre armband bought at Lawrence's, the seed necklace formerly in the Savage collection, the Niue necklace obtained from Mr R.S. Carr, 31 March 1884
The fibre armband bought at Lawrence's, the seed necklace formerly in the Savage collection, the Niue necklace obtained from Mr R.S. Carr, 31 March 1884