Unique Older Nassa Shells & Black Beads Necklace, Body Ornament and Currency, Trade Item, Worn during Festivals, Initiations, Rites of passage or used for payments, bride price etc… Highlands of Papua New Guinea. NECK47

Trade currency Choker Neck Ornament from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea , collected in the 1990's. ITEM NECK47   It has been reduced because one of the clasps is broken. If not worn, These necklaces look very good also in a decor, around the neck of a vase or basket. Unique Festival Neck Necklace Ornament from Papua New Guinea's Highlands with a network of nassa shells and alternated black beads. Also used as a currency item during feuds, coming of age, bride price etc... Original item  Collected on the premises in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea Necklaces, headbands and armbands are knotted from handmade vegetal string and may include seeds, coix, nassa shells or others, Unique trade beads, feathers and fur, grasses and ferns, croton leaves, yellow orchid vine, everlasting daisies, links of bamboo and fiber chains etc... Such decorative items were only worn by the “Big Men”, the initiated men and the Shamans of Papua New Guinea during special ceremonies & rites, as  pectoral