Tribal Mengar Big Men Pectoral Kina Shell Mother Pearl Drop Pendant Payback no4

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Kina Drop, item 160A33 OR KINAD4, large unique mother of pearl piece from remote Papuan tribe. read below for additional information on this piece. We are closing our doors so everything has been reduced! Check Dominique Rice Oceania Store in Sun Sentinel Newspaper, Fort Lauderdale, for information on our collection and authentic art. Check my “Me” page on ebay (next to the star with my number of transactions) for valuable information about all we carry besides what is currently listed since we do not have time to list everything at once and will add these other items as time permits . If you have any questions, contact us or call for documents and further information on pieces. All our collector and rare items come with pages and pages of research about provenance, and with history of the tribes and photos as well, depending on item and whenever possible. When shipping internationally, we group ship multiple purchases to save you money, and find the best rates which ebay often fails to calculate right. If you have any questions or want to see research conducted on this piece and photos of tribes, email or call us. We have artifacts and architectural accents up to 10 ft tall that we will put on upon request because shipping has to be calculated accordingly with trucking company. Mengar bride price necklace From Kimbaku Village, between Madang Province and the Western Highlands You are buying the large drop pectoral ornament seen on the pictures up to 9, an authentic ornament that was once part of a elaborate costume as seen on some of the photos above, and collected from the natives which you can see wearing them on the additinal photos.This is a scarce original Tribal Pectoral Necklace called Kina after the large Kina Mother of pearl tear drop shell pendant that adorns it. We collected it in the tribe’s village. Mounted on a Seed bead chain. Kinas, mother of pearl necklaces, are rare treasures from Papua and a sign of wealth and prosperity and were worn either alone or in multiples for special celebrations when warriors would wear a kina shell pectoral necklace as the focal point of their dress.These pectoral ornaments are made of mother of pearl drop pieces (the gold-lipped pearl shell: Pinctada maximums, cut into shapes and called kina). Some Kina Shells are hanging from a simple cord with pulled up seed capsules, or just a simple carrying cord. This piece was used and we collected it on the premises in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Kina shells are used for bride price, blood feud paybacks, wealth displays and exchange festivals as well as for admission to men’s clubs and secret societies (Papua New Guinea's paper money is named after the Kina shell). When a kina is used as payment in a ceremony, it may be mounted with resin onto a oval clay-covered display board called a moka and stained with bright red dyes (we have one of those in our buy it nows also, which are extremely rare). Shells pieces such as this are still used in traditional ceremonial payments as well as pectoral ornements for special ceremonies. When the Leahy brothers came into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea searching for gold, they found people who valued the gold-lipped pearl shell as much as the miners valued gold. Shells are valuable all over New Guinea, but especially so in the Highlands where the traditional trading contacts between tribes slowly passed shells from ocean to mountain valleys. The tribes or Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have lived in isolation for centuries due to the remoteness of their land and its difficult access. Their dress code has remained primitive for centuries. Traditionally, the men wear no other clothing apart from a penis sheath made of a cultivated gourd and known locally as a “horim” and some simple ornamentation such as string hair nets, bird of paradise feathers and necklaces with boar tusks or cowrie shells or other. We carry many other artifacts we collect direct from th... read more

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