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Something different! Elegant and fragile looking but perhaps a lot sturdier than it appears to be.
Love it...
Thanx Betty..
i am an artist working with fabric so.. i posted this for a change …sometimes we get tired of too much bling !!!! ;-)
Angelo
A very beautiful and sensitive bracelet.
A piece carefully "woven" from fibre in the traditional manner, and of good age. They are still surprisingly cheap, as New Guineans themselves don't value them any more, and Western collectors have been in general absurdly slow to see the merit. My wife Truus and I are among a very small group of serious collectors of New Guinea jewellery, and love pieces of this kind. Their time of being appreciated will no doubt come ... Thanks for posting. There are also beautiful belts done in the same way. They are so pliable that they are simply rolled up!
Thanx Joost …indeed …many collectors they don't see them…the work that is involved and the mathematics …made out of a material right there !!!
I have also 2 men's chest ornament ..omak..from PNG..i'll post them for you !!
Best
Angelo
Angelo, my wife Truus Daalder and I live in Australia and have for many years collected Oceanic objects of adornment - mainly from New Guinea (particularly PNG), as that has survived in considerable numbers, but also from Oceania more generally. Truus's book *Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment* contains the largest, most intensive study of Oceanic jewellery/adornment to date (and the ONLY one of Australian Aboriginal jewellery). Given your admirable (though alas unusual) interest in the subject, you are very likely to enjoy the book, and to find it useful as well. The Australian/Oceanic sections have been PARTICULARLY highly acclaimed and are regularly consulted by specialist curators, dealers, and collectors. You can get an idea of the book by going to its website: www.ethnicartpress.com.au. The book is being sold at a very low price considering its enormous scope: 420 large pages, PhD length text (very informative), 700 large colour photos, with many of objects infrequently or NOT AT ALL shown elsewhere. It also contains sections on several other cultures - notably from Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, which you will also enjoy. You do sound like just the person the book is made for!! Please consider ...The website is also the place where it can be bought most cheaply, as we now control supply after our fellow publisher Macmillan Art Publisher ceased operating.