Lot 199 D‡α

Cf. Friede, J. et al. (Eds.), "New Guinea Highlands Art from the Jolika Collection", San Francisco, 2017, p.590, fig.17.43.B. The author states that such ornaments probably pre-date colonization, at which time imported bailer shells appear to have replaced ornaments of bat wings-bones (as in this lot) and frog's leg-bones.