Amulet bag of zoomorphic shape ·  Papua New Guinea - Boiken area · ID: 3039336

Description

tripartite fibre netting, seamed by nassa snails and spread with a mixture of clay and red ochre, split boar tusks, arranged in a circle and in shape of crowning horns, cassowary feathers, cowrie shell pendant, slightly dam. (fibre netting), metal base

The object Amulet bag of zoomorphic shape with the object ID 3039336 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 68.

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Publications

Michael Hamson, Art of the Boiken, Palos Verdes, 2011, p. 234, ill. 155