Description:

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. late 19th to mid-20th century CE. A group of 5 artifacts from Papua New Guinea. A pair of woven rattan bracelets exhibit flexible and wearable forms. The sex cover has dozens of thick reed segments bound with twisted thread and a strap with the waistband straps knotted together. The body of the hand-carved wooden betel nut mortar features incised linear and sawtooth motifs above a narrow, plug-form base. A rattle (or idiophone) has trios of slender seed pod halves suspended from the end of the reed handle. Size (sex cover): 10.375" L x 3.6" W (26.4 cm x 9.1 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection, 1995 to 2010

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#141254

  • Condition: Bracelets have light fraying to some fibers but are wearable, with small chips to some seed pods on rattle, and light abrasions to mortar and sex cover, otherwise all are intact and very good. Rattle still makes nice sound when shaken.

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