ASMAT - IRIAN JAYA
ASMAT - IRIAN JAYA.
Ceremonial pectoral necklace made of plant bark decorated with a triple crown of coffee bean shells. In the center a primate skull decorated with basketry, polychrome seeds, framed by bone lozenges, friezes of seeds and coffee bean shells, horn. The whole finished with brown and colored feathers of cassowaries and domestic gallinaceous.
Total height: 70 cm approx.
(small accidents and missing parts) (Casuariidae spp) (Gallus gallus domesticus)
These species are not subject to regulation, in particular under the Washington Convention (CITES) or the EC Regulation 338/97 of 09/12/1996.
