Lot 327 D‡α

An old label reads: "Liebeszauber [love charm] a vavulvul N.Br."

In "Thirty Years in the South Seas" (Honolulu, 1999, originally published in Stuttgart in 1907), Richard Parkinson writes: Decoration of the person by means of ornamental objects is particularly popular among males, but here too sorcery comes once more into evidence, in that many of the objects regarded by us as ornaments also possess allegedly powerful magical effects. I might almost say that there is no single object of adornment that is not connected with some kind of sorcery (op.cit. p.63).