Amulet bag of zoomorphic shape, Papua New Guinea - Boiken area, Size: H: 34 cm (H: 13.4 inch), ID: 3039336

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

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Provenance

Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, USA

Size

H: 34 cm

H: 13.4 inch

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

Publications

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

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