拍品专文
Biebuyck (p.242) observes that the red shell beads were widely used in Truk in the Caroline Islands, but were mostly acquired through trade from the Mortlock Islands as ready-made beads or as finished ornaments
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TRUK
细节
a superb Caroline Islands shell headband
Truk
Composed of a thick strand of coconut fibre bound with twisted fibres strung with fifty-nine paired Spondylus-shell discs divided by black coconut-shell beads, three rows of just the latter each end
46cm. long
Truk
Composed of a thick strand of coconut fibre bound with twisted fibres strung with fifty-nine paired Spondylus-shell discs divided by black coconut-shell beads, three rows of just the latter each end
46cm. long
来源
Dr. Hahl, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, before 1912
出版
Biebuyck, D., and Van den Abbeele, N., The Power of Headdresses, p.242, Pl.195