TEN ASMAT NECKLACES - image-1

Lot 190 Dα

TEN ASMAT NECKLACES

Auktion 1119 - Übersicht Brussels
24.10.2018, 14:00 - A Sculptor´s Eye
Schätzpreis: 600 € - 800 €
Ergebnis: 4.464 € (inkl. Aufgeld)

TEN ASMAT NECKLACES
Western New Guinea

60 to 80 cm. long

Cf. Schneebaum, T., "Asmat Images", Agat, 1985, p.167, fig.c., for a necklace suspending a human jawbone. The author states that the jawbones of all headhunted victims were discarded and thrown to the women who used them as the centrepieces of necklaces.