Mwali cuff. Rare and ancient shell cuff mounted on a length - Lot 256

Lot 256
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1000 - 1500 EUR
Mwali cuff. Rare and ancient shell cuff mounted on a length - Lot 256
Mwali cuff. Rare and ancient shell cuff mounted on a length of braided fiber and decorated with conus shells and nut shell bells from the kula exchange circuit between the islands of the Massin region in Papua New Guinea. Conus shells, vegetable fibers, walnut shells, and pandanus leaves. Height: 15 cm. See The Argonauts of the Western Pacific by ethnologist Bronislaw Malinowski from 1922.
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