Breast ornament, three bracelets and one gaff ·  Papua New Guinea, Dani · ID: 3033699

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

The object Breast ornament, three bracelets and one gaff with the object ID 3033699 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 56 achieved a sales price of EUR 150.

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