A NEW GUINEA ORNAMENT, with six boar's tusks on rattan base suspending cassowary feathers; a necklace of shell discs suspending clam shell ring; and an anklet of seventeen ovula shells on twisted fibre

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A NEW GUINEA ORNAMENT, with six boar's tusks on rattan base suspending cassowary feathers; a necklace of shell discs suspending clam shell ring; and an anklet of seventeen ovula shells on twisted fibre
the boar's tusk ornament 30cm. long (3)
Provenance
Charles William Abel (1863-1930)

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