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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic Art - Part III
• Sale Date:
  22 Sep 2019 ~ 4pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  178
• Lot Description:
  Two Ancient Kap Kap Bases + Two Ancient Shell Ring Guides, Western Solomon Islands, 19th Century or earlier [4]
  bases: turtle shell overlay missing
  Dia 10-11 cm, 7-8.5 cm
• Provenance:
  Nicolai Mitchoutouchkine Collection, Vanuatu (shell ring guides); BL Hornshaw (1878-1937) Collection (kap kap bases) Hornshaw was an avid collector of Pacific & Australian Aboriginal Artefacts, he received many of his pieces from people who lived & worked in the Pacific in the late 19th Century
• Notes:
  These were used to get the middle hole started in a large piece of fossilised tridacna shell, used in the Solomon Islands as important wealth objects, used by a specialist artist with friction, bamboo & sand to cut the initial hole
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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