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THB19th C Papua New Guinea Wood Bride Price Necklace
Lot 2
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A fascinating bride price necklace or chest adornment from Papua New Guinea featuring a sizable kina shell set with clay onto a carved-wood oval. Boasting natural striations in lustrous hues of golden caramel, butterscotch, and beige, the crescent-shaped kina shell is displayed at the center of the oval below two coins from Papua New Guinea and a column of horizontal vegetal reeds. The area surrounding the shell is painted a vibrant hue of russet. The intriguing example displays a pair of drill holes at the top of each point of the shell tied with a strip of woven vegetal fiber with coins at each end - a Papua New Guinean shilling at one and an Australia ten cent piece at the other - allowing the piece to be worn as a necklace or chest piece. Size: 12.75" W x 14.75" H (32.4 cm x 37.5 cm)
Kina shells are used as currency among tribes of the Southern Highlands and Western Highlands regions of Papua New Guinea. This piece would have been used as a bride price - a price paid to the bride's family by the groom - and later worn as a status ornament.
Provenance: private Tucson, Arizona, USA collection, acquired between 1950 and 1985
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#147594Missing at least three vegetal reeds. Light scratches to shell and minor cracking to clay in areas. Miniscule fraying to vegetal fiber. Otherwise, intact and excellent with nice remaining pigments.Condition
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