A fine Tahiti shell headband
A fine Tahiti shell headband

细节
A fine Tahiti shell headband
Of small yellow snail shells, similar black shells and many tiny white volutes strung and woven into a dense circlet of circular cross-section, the black shells in nine clusters, the yellow shells in narrow bands, all on a white ground
25cm. diam.
来源
Dr. Kiyoshi Hosai, Honolulu
展览
Ta'aroa, L'Univers polynesien, Brussels, 1982, p.185, no.145

拍品专文

Cf. the material and construction of a necklace attributed to Samoa in the collection of the Linden Museum, Stuttgart (Heermann, I., and Menter, U., Schmuck der Sdsee, Munich, 1990, p.124, fig.69.2)