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FIJI / TONGA COMB La Korrigane 1934/36

Galerie Meyer-Oceanic Art

Provenance: Collected in field by Monique de Ganay in April 1935 during the La Korrigane Expedition.
Field collection number 164. Musée de l’Homme deposit number D.39.3.62. embossed on metal inventory tag.
The field inventory states : Comb seru (iseru) in wood (duvu) with 21 tines strung with brown fibers and decorated with red, white and blue glass beads. Exchanged against an old dress with an elderly woman on Makutu Island by Monique de Ganay in April 1935.

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Tribal Art dealer specializing in early Oceanic Art since 1980 and archaic Eskimo Art since 2010

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