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Very Rare Trobriand Doga Necklace

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Very Rare Trobriand Doga Necklace
Lot: 4109
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Title: Very Rare Trobriand Doga Necklace
Description: Also from the Trobriand Islands, this amazing necklace has an overlapping string of sapi sapi, called wakisowa, attached to a circular boar's tusk pendant with colorful glass seed beads and shell dangles; such valuables were called doga. Hardly any doga have survived to the present time; most were traded away during the kula cycle. Illustrated in Opitz, p. 134.
Low Estimate: 600
High Estimate: 1200
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