a fiji whaletooth necklace

WASEISEI, WASEKASEKA

细节

a fiji whaletooth necklace
waseisei, wasekaseka
Composed of thirty-two very long curved sections of whale tooth, pierced and threaded on twisted fibre
longest tooth 25cm.

来源

James Hooper, no.882, acquired from the Birmingham Museum in 1931 Christie's London, June 19, 1979, lot 109

出版

Phelps, S. J., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Afric and the Americas, the James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, no. 822

拍品专文

Cf. a very similar necklace with such long slender whale tooth sections in the Hooper collection (Phelps, S.J., Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, the James Hooper Collection , no.822) from the Birmingham Museum.