“Big Man” Bamboo Bib Pectoral Ornament or Necklace, Bamboo & Seed Beads, Once Worn during a Sing-Sing celebration by a Tribal Dancer from the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea, collected in the late 1900’s

Tribal Traditional Singsing Seed beads & bamboo Bib Pectoral Adornment Necklace, once used in a Singsing. ITEM BAM1 or 160A100 in our inventory Original necklace collected in the field. Tribal men wearing some also seen on the photosTR Collected in the late 1900's in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. 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. On ceremonial days, it is another matter, they then use material from the surrounding jungles to create incredibly colorful and clever body adornments and costumes, as seen on the photos here as well. Shel