Sepik

 

ex Nicholson Coll., US

 

 Collected by Bruce Lawes (between 1947-65)

 

 Exhibited: 

 

"We Shout To Make it Silent"

Plattsburgh State Museum, SUNY 2003

 

Published:

 

"We Shout To Make it Silent" 2003

Illus 56, pg. 24

 

 

A fine old dog tooth necklace from Papua New Guinea's Sepik River Valley.  Dog tooth necklaces were worn by chief and this one has great old patina / wear.

 

20th Cent.

 

25"

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