£150
A Melanesian/old Papuan New Guinea Ramu River region 'Hunting Charm', in the form of a carved wood ancestral figure within a woven pouch decorated with dog’s teeth (used as a standard currency, in some parts of Papua New Guinea, until the 1970s [Two hundred dogs teeth=one boars tusk], dog's teeth equated to the silver coinage of the West and a Boars tusk as the gold.) Given to our client some years ago by the well-known anthropologist Mary-Clare Adam, the daughter of the renowned anthropologist and lawyer Leonhard Adam (1890-1960)
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