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| Malaita Island, Solomon Islands Late 19th Century Black palm wood, shell inlay & fibre. Length: 23 cm. Provenance: Leo Fortess Collection, Hawaii; Tad Dale, Santa Fe, NM. Usually worn by men as hair ornaments, this is a typical example carved from palm wood with shell inlaid with adhesive paste from the ‘puttynut’ fruit. Originally found in England by Tad Dale, probably in the early 1980’s. | |||||||||||
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