Post #158597 by I dream of tiki on Fri, May 13, 2005 9:50 AM

Next topic: Mask, Jewelry/adornments and armory

"This is a necklace made out of boar tusks that was once worn in a singsing festival and the one below as well,which is adorned with cassowary feathers all around and which tusks are held by a fiber cloth, called Tapa: actual pounded-into-a-fabric- bark. Statue is from Timor."

"This is an unusual Sepik mask , the only one i ever found with yellow color."

"This is a rare Dani armor to protect warrior in battle. In 25 years, I've never found another one like it, full of cuscus skulls and fur, bark cloth underlining, tusks, fiber string decorations and weaving on the sides. I just sold it but i thought i should share it, it is so beautiful and unusual. The body is made of thousands of little nassa shells worked into the bark underlining."

"These above are body armors from Sulawesi east of Borneo, entirely made of bone plaques on a woven fiber backing, used by the people of Toraja during battle."

[ Edited by: I dream of tiki 2009-02-20 23:52 ]