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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: tusk and shell ornament (368.62g), Choice VF

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Ethnographic Start Price:85.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: tusk and shell ornament (368.62g), Choice VF
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150.00USD+ (30.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2022 Sep 16 @ 19:49UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: tusk and shell ornament (368.62g), Opitz p.72 (plate example), comprising a 48 x 6cm woven band adorned with dozens of large nassa shells, affixed at the top to two pairs of conjoined boar tusks, and at the bottom to two large shells (conus and cowry), worn around the neck and used as money by the native people, a very nice specimen! Choice VF, ex Charles Opitz Collection. Acquired by the consignor in 1973 in Kubkain Village on the Sepik River in East Sepik Province.