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Pedigreed Solomon Islands Girdle

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:NA
Pedigreed Solomon Islands Girdle
SOLD
500.00USD+ buyer's premium (100.00)
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 12 @ 11:35UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
Lot: 4145
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Title: Pedigreed Solomon Islands Girdle
Description: A fantastic girdle over three feet long, of shell and glass beads and very small porpoise teeth, acquired in Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. Very old and in excellent condition.
Low Estimate: 1000
High Estimate: 3000
Pedigree Collection: This piece is pictured in Cranstone, Melanesia - A Short Ethnography (British Museum, 1961), p. 96; purchased from a Solomons native while there in 1995.