Breast ornament, dog tooth necklace and string bag · Papua New Guinea · ID: 3043929
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Provenance
Plantikow, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, GermanyDescription
a) breast ornament for men, Astrolabe Bay, fibre, netting, ovula and nassa snails, wood, b: 23 cm; b) dogs tooth necklace, Admirality Islands, plant fibre/nassa snails, l: 32 cm; c) traditional string bag “bilum”, plantfibre/Job’s tears (“Coix lacryma-jobi”), h: 23 cm
Comparing literature
Heermann, Ingrid & Ulrich Menter, Schmuck der Südsee, München 1990, p. 66, ill. 13