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THE FIRST FROM THE SEPIK/RAMU DELTA AREA
Details
Two New Guinea shell ornaments
The first from the Sepik/Ramu delta area
Each composed of an oval section of bailer shell with applied turtleshell panel, the first decorated with a spiked oval secured by two short black tubes flanked by a nassa camelus shell, with pin for insertion in the coiffure, the second pierced as two stylised four-legged creatures held by a small central shell bead
9cm. and 11cm. long (2)
The first from the Sepik/Ramu delta area
Each composed of an oval section of bailer shell with applied turtleshell panel, the first decorated with a spiked oval secured by two short black tubes flanked by a nassa camelus shell, with pin for insertion in the coiffure, the second pierced as two stylised four-legged creatures held by a small central shell bead
9cm. and 11cm. long (2)
Literature
Biebuyck, D., and Van den Abbeele, N., The Power of Headdresses, Brussels, 1984, p.232, Pl.185, for the first