A fine Hawaii shell necklace

细节

A fine Hawaii shell necklace
composed of multiple small yellow snail shells strung as a continuous dense double spiral
140cm. long

来源

Dr. Krmer, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, no.87642

展览

Ta'aroa,l'Univers polynesien, Brussels, 1982, no.143

拍品专文

Cf. a similar necklace attributed to Samoa in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart (Heermann, I., and Menter, U., Schmuck der Sdsee, Munich, 1990, p.124, fig.69.2). For another collected on Captain Cook's voyages see Kaeppler, A., Artificial Curiosities, Honolulu, 1978, p.210, fig.423.