Belt

117. A fine Elema bark belt, Papuan Gulf.  Coiled with stylised carved decoration, tied with fibre and with three shell beads, one star shaped and the other circular, with a handwritten collection label KENNEDY COLLECTION No.434. NEW GUINEA. ELEMA DIST. MOTU.MOTU. BELT OF BARK. FROM REV J. CHALMERS COLLECTION. ETH: ALB: PL312. No.6. 2.11.94.

sold

10cm wide.

Provenance
Reverend James Chalmers Collection, UK. (1841 – 1901) A Scottish member of the London Missionary Society, working in Papua New Guinea between 1877 and 1901, assembling botanical and geographical information around the Papuan Gulf.
Kennedy Collection, UK. acquired from the above in 1894.
William Ohly (1883 – 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.