Breast ornament, three bracelets and one gaff · Papua New Guinea, Dani · ID: 3033699
sold
EUR 150
Description
breast-ornament (“Dani-tie”), l: 40,5 cm/b: 7,5 cm, broad grass fibre weave, in dense horizontal rows embroidered with the shells of Nassarius camelus shells; three arm rings, d: 5 cm -6 cm, two of them cut from coconut shell, the smallest one made of tortoise shell; additional: one gaff, made of tortoise shell with horn hook and plant fibre binding