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632. A Middle Sepik woman’s rainhood Papua New Guinea woven fibre, rectangular and stitched along one side with zig-zag rows of loops and with pigments stripes in black, red, yellow and white, 97.5cm long. £100-150
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633. An Admiralty Islands apron Papua New Guinea bark cloth with linear fibre strands of beads, shell discs, seeds and cloth, 90cm x 70cm. £300-400 Provenance Sotheby’s, Australia, 8 November 1998, lot 17.
634. An Andaman Islands ‘full dress’ Bay of Bengal leaf and fibre, comprising; a head band/belt with gum decoration and tassels, 28.5cm long, two similar armbands with shells, two narrow bound wrist bands and a similar head band, with a hand written label Andaman Isl. “Full dress” C.W.H. £100-150 Provenance Charles Wilfred Hext (1880 - 1918) The Hext Sale, Tennants, Yorksihire, 8 May 2010, lot 364 part. 634
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