Mwali cuff. Rare and ancient shell cuff mounted on a length - Lot 226

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400 - 500 EUR
Mwali cuff. Rare and ancient shell cuff mounted on a length - Lot 226
Mwali cuff. Rare and ancient shell cuff mounted on a length of braided fiber and embellished with conus shells and walnut shell bells from the kula exchange circuit between the islands of the Massim 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, 1922.
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