A Papua New Guinea, Abelam, Karaut, pectoral ornament

as a stylised human figure with pig tusk horns, applied with cut cowrie shells, on woven cloth ground with natural dyes
36cm high

Provenance:
Gifted to the vendor by a relative who was a doctor serving in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s/70s

Condition Report

Lacking a foot mount with some loose fibres otherwise good