BRIDE PRICE (Wealth Object), Talipun
Prince Alexander Mountains
Papua New Guinea


These are valuable wealth items, primarily used as bride price in marriage exchanges. A beautifully woven cane mask, generally abstract-human in form is attached to a Giant Green Snail ( TURBO ) shell. The shell part, which is rare, is the traditional important wealth part; but the woven mask makes it into a work of art. Painted in white, red and blue.


Size: 41 cm (height) 19 cm (width) 17 cm (depth)

Weight: 707 grams