Hair ornament "faa" for men · Solomon Islands - Malaita · ID: 3041621
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Provenance
Douglas Barrett, London, Great BritainSize
H: 17,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch
Description
twenty fan-like arranged teeth from split sections of the core of tree ferns, handle decorated with fine plaited orchid bast dyed in red, yellow and brown, min. abrasion of paint
The object Hair ornament “faa” for men with the object ID 3041621 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 48.
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Comparing literature
Conru, Kevin, Solomon Islands Art, Milan 2008, p. 163