Nice to get to know a bit more about your background and interests, any jewelry :-) Hope to bring more indonesian stuff up in this forum, though...
Could be clay, i guess:shame: I'll go check if i can recognize the difference. It's very heavy anyway! No hollow ware.
And thnx for your compliment too Johnny. :-)
Thanx for all your input (and welcome) everybody. I think this thread is solved completely. Great result! :-)
Wow, perfect Taupou! Can i give to times a best answer rate? Well, i just did. :) [ATTACH]
Very good clue about the floral motive, anyjewelry. Also for betel leaves makes lots of sense! Far better thsn powder indeed :) Thnx a lot...
What's compartments in a comb exactly? More like this, you mean? [ATTACH]
This oval cylinder shaped container/box i bought together with some decorated dayak bamboo tubes and 2 dayak poison blowpipe containers. Don't...
Totally right of course, the story could make it interesting. Let's hope, though it seems to be a hard one :-), someone solves this riddle.
A screenprint is easier[ATTACH]
Actually, i'm not convinced by the molucca/taminbar origin of the first comb yet. Possible, but I have checked a lot of new comb pictures and i...
Let's hope we don't scare anyone off ;)
Yes Dutch, any jewelry. Dank je. :) Perfect match for second comb! Wonderful! First one also indonesian would be more likely than african as well,...
Checked out some solomon stuff komokwa. Wonderful objects! Not convinced my combs are from there though.
Stylisticly a wide jump, but i found one Bamileke stone statue that shows an ugly face just a little bit similar:...
I bought this stone figure (a man carried by a man?) with some other stuff from Bamun (Cameroon) and Yoruba (Nigeria). It think it looks to...
Just recently I bought these two combs, together with other stuf from mainly Asia. These combs look more african to me, however. Anybody any ideas...
Active forum! Thnx guys. Mystery items will have to wait though. Going to sleep now. :)
Over the years (i'm 52 now for those interested) I have collected already quite a lot tribal/ethnografic stuff, lately my collecting has...
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