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Breast ornament, dog tooth necklace and string bag ·  Papua New Guinea · ID: 3043929

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Provenance
Plantikow, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany

Description

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


The object Breast ornament, dog tooth necklace and string bag with the object ID 3043929 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 22.

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Comparing literature

Heermann, Ingrid & Ulrich Menter, Schmuck der Südsee, München 1990, p. 66, ill. 13


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