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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 598782, member: 2844"]It is the circular ornament in the photo I posted.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> The white part is shell, the decoration is finely cut tortoiseshell.</p><p>They used to be worn on the Solomon Islands. This is how:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lyonandturnbull.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fthumbnail_no_crop%2Fpublic%2FA%2520Solomon%2520Islands%2520chief%2520wearing%2520a%2520kapkap%2520with%2520detailed%2520filigree%2520decoration%252C%2520c.%25201920.jpg%3Fitok%3D6hdO9qHv&sp=347f29257603ff1479b8492ab9569bdd" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm with the others, the mask is a tourist carving in Sepik style. The Sepik River is in Papua New Guinea. I don't know if your mask is Papua made, or made somewhere else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 598782, member: 2844"]It is the circular ornament in the photo I posted.;) The white part is shell, the decoration is finely cut tortoiseshell. They used to be worn on the Solomon Islands. This is how: [IMG]https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lyonandturnbull.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fthumbnail_no_crop%2Fpublic%2FA%2520Solomon%2520Islands%2520chief%2520wearing%2520a%2520kapkap%2520with%2520detailed%2520filigree%2520decoration%252C%2520c.%25201920.jpg%3Fitok%3D6hdO9qHv&sp=347f29257603ff1479b8492ab9569bdd[/IMG] I'm with the others, the mask is a tourist carving in Sepik style. The Sepik River is in Papua New Guinea. I don't know if your mask is Papua made, or made somewhere else.[/QUOTE]
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