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Beaded Belt

Solomon Islands, c. 1900

Glass beads, shell, coconut shell, and fiber

49” l x 4” w (124.46 x 10.16 cm)

Price: $575

 
 

Cf. Opitz (2000: 330–1), Sotheby Parke Bernet (1978, lot 78), and Waite (1983: 139, fig. 65).

REFERENCES

George Ortiz Collection of African and Oceanic works of art, Thursday 29 June 1978,

Sotheby Parke Bernet (New London, 1978), lot 78.

Opitz, C. J. An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money: A Definition of Money and

Descriptions of Traditional Money. Ocala, FL: First Impressions Print., 2000.

Waite, Deborah. Art of the Solomon Islands: from the Collection of the Barbier-Müller

Collection. Geneva: Musée Barbier-Müller, 1983.

 
 
 
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