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Oceanic Body Adornment

Old Middle Sepik kina shell valuable on a shell beaded neckband, circa 1920s, ex-Leo Fleischmann Collection.	Old baler Shell phallocrypt, circa 1900. Pangia, PNG Highlands	Heavy old Mende ‘sekip’ status armband, Southern PNG Highlands
Fine old Solomons shell disk and fibre arm band	Outstanding Boiken shell headband with dog teeth crest	Outstanding old nassa shell headband, circa 1950, PNG Southern Highlands
Rare and superb Torres Straits dari feather head dress	Superb old feather dance head dress, Central America	Old cassowary feather head dress, Prince Alexander Mountains, East Sepik. Ex-Leo Fleischmann Collection.
Rare Kwoma status dance cap	SOLD Old Marind Anim woven armband, Slo Vili Village, West Papua	Carved shell and bush string armband, Ramu River, Lower Sepik
A superb and elaborate fofona pectoral, Eastern Highlands	Rare old Trobriands red spiny oyster (spondylus) shell multi disk belt, early 20th Century	Superb 1950s Enga wig with possum tail hairpins, PNG Spouthern Highlands.
Classic coastal woven pectoral with egg cowries.	A woven Kwoma armband decorated with currency rings.	A very fine Abelam Kara’wut pectoral war charm.
Superb old Kwoma nassa shell forehead piece.	Old and heavy forehead shell decoration (Gam) , Mende, PNG Southern Hihglands	Old Abelam pig tusk nose ornament, circa 1900. Ex-Leo Fleishman Collection.
Beaded arm band, Vanuatu.	SOLD Two superb c.1900 Massim clamshell nose decorations.	Museum quality Manus shell disk and glass bead belt, Admiralty Islands
Sekip status armband with metal band, Southern Highlands	Badges of office for a Village Magistrate and a Court Officer, Chimbu, Southern highlands	Pair of Trobrands Mwali bracelets.
Rare Kwoma shell bell necklace with cassowary claw clapper, Bangus Village.	A old baler shell pectoral, fine patina, Mende, PNG Southern Highlands.	Fine old Solomons shell disk belt, early 20th Century, ex- Peter Hallinan
Wosera woven armband with shell currency rings, collected by Fred Gerrits.	Fine old Kina shell pectoral with an unusual neckband, PNG Highlands.	SOLD Solomon Islands kapkap pectoral
SOLD Two old Manus Island combs, Admiralty Islands	Kina shell pectoral with tribal and colonial currencies attached, Mendi, Southern Highlands	Wide bark belt, Mendi, Southern Highlands
A superb fofona pectoral	Rare and magnificent old Mwali bracelet used in the ritual Kula exchange, Vakuta Island, Trobriands Archipelago.	Bark belt (Geling), Minj
SOLD Two old feather headdress decorations, PNG Highlands