Four Melanesian Shell Necklaces

Description:

Four Melanesian Shell Necklaces, a Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, shell money necklace, two New Guinea nassa shell necklaces, and a short cowrie shell necklace from the Sepik River region, New Guinea, lg. 15 1/4, 46, 40 1/2, and 12 in.

Provenance: Fortess collection, Honolulu, Hawaii; the Sepik necklace from the Stanley Moriarty collection.
Estimate $200-400


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