Two Eastern Highlands armbands

Two Eastern Highlands armbands

Bena Bena area, Papua New Guinea

woven fibre with pigment and applied nassa shells, the larger with a shell ring and fibre strands,

26cm and 17cm long,

an Abelam chest ornament with boar tucks, 23cm long, and a Highlands chest ornament, bark and fibre with dye and pigment, 37cm long. (4)

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.

Collected in 1978.