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A Yale necklace
has a large number of marsupial teeth with interwoven string; shiny patina in worn string.
Material: teeth, fibre; circumference: 600mm.
Provenance:
Collected in Wamena in 1994.
Private Collection and acquired by LukLuk Gallery in 1995.
This male decoration is often worn by tribal leaders and sometimes used to indicate the number of animals that the hunter has killed.
Discussion:
See 'Edmundson 1999' - pp102, pl15 for a similar necklace from the Ok Sibil region of Irian Jaya.
Comparison:
See 'Konrad 1981' - pp.149 (e) for an example of tooth necklace from the Asmat Brazza River region.
Artefact Code:
ML0195
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