Bride-price "talipun"

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Description

wickerwork mask, dyed with red, black and white pigment and crowned by a wooden hornbill beak, attached to the shell of a giant “turbo marmoratus” snail, good condition, on base;
the complete object is kept and used by the Yangoru or traded to the Iatmul, who use these composite works of art as bride-prices.

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Comparing literature

Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, ill. 357

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