FOUR YALI CEREMONIAL BONE BELTS

FOUR YALI CEREMONIAL BONE BELTS
Highlands, Western New Guinea

63 to 116 cm. long (without ties)

Cf. Friede, J. et al. (Eds.), "New Guinea Highlands Art from the Jolika Collection", San Francisco, 2017, p.590, fig.17.43.B. The author states that such ornaments probably pre-date colonization, at which time imported bailer shells appear to have replaced ornaments of bat wings-bones (as in this lot) and frog's leg-bones.