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Lot 46 Dα

FOUR YALI BONE BELTS

Auktion 1129 - Übersicht Brussels
09.04.2019, 14:00 - African and Oceanic Art
Schätzpreis: 600 € - 800 €
Ergebnis: 558 € (inkl. Aufgeld)

FOUR YALI BONE BELTS
Highlands, Western New Guinea

62 to 88 cm. long (without ties)

Cf. Friede, J. et al. (Eds.), "New Guinea Highlands Art from the Jolika Collection", San Francsico, 2017, p.590, fig.17.43B. The authors state that such ornaments probably pre-date colonization, at which time imported bailer shells appear to have replaced ornaments of bat wing-bones (as in the present lot).