Sash, around 1900 · Solomon Islands - Santa Cruz Islands · ID: 3043427
sold
EUR 900
Size
B: 49 cm
H: 19,3 cm
B: 19.3 inch
H: 7.6 inch
Description
remarkably fine worked plant fibre weave with diamond shaped patterns in dark fibres, decorated with tufts of hemp and bundles from folded grass fibre strips, slightly dam.
A quite similar sash can be found in the Conru Collection of Solomon Island Art (Conru, 2008, ill. 121).
Comparing literature
Conru, Kevin, Solomon Islands Art, Milan 2008, p. 187, ill. 121