Lot 322 D‡α

Cf. Hamson, M. (Ed.), "Between the Known and Unknown: New Guinea Art from Astrolabe Bay to Morobe", Palos Verdes Estates, 2016, p.280, fig.148, for two similar bracelets attributed to the Huon Gulf area. Another in the British Museum (Oc1944,02.1966) has been identified as from the Nekgini language group, Madang province; and a third, attributed to the Cape Merkus area, at the west end of New Britain, was collected by A.B. Lewis between 1909 and 1913 (Welsch, R.L.," An American Anthropologist in Melanesia", Honolulu, 1998, vol.1, p.184, fig.3.24).