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Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea
Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea

Unique “Big Man” Chief Tribal Boar Tusks & Ancestors’s Status Trophy, Important Pectoral Ornament Worn during Initiations, also used as Currency, Bride Price, Feud Payments , collected in the late 1900’s in the Highlands Of Papua New Guinea

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South pacific rare art: Highlands of Papua New Guinea. PNG.

Important Highly Collectible "Big Man" Pectoral Ornament

Boar Hunter's Tribal Trophy (also used as currency, worth, bride price and as payment during feuds)

 Item: TUSK30

Very Good Condition

Pectoral decoration or necklace consisting of 2 boar tusks attached together with hand twisted bark twine and mounted on a necklace adorned with 6 hand carved ancestor figures each providing a service: one for good health, 2nd for prosperity, 3rd for abundance of food goods, 4th for luck in battles and hunts, 5th for long life and 6th for high position in the village, all hand carved hand etched in animal bone and there to insure all these protections for the owner, additional glass beads & metal flute beads decorate this unique "Village Chief chest ornament" collected on the premises in the late 1900's.

The boars are not endangered nor killed for their tusks unless they are hunted for their meat for a feast or celebration, every part of the boar will be used in this case.(Papua New Guinea  Boar tusks and bones are not on the endangered species list, Please note!)

 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.

Shell, teeth, bone, wood, beads and natural fiber binding, all crafted with great care, are the raw materials of most Oceanic jewelry. Brightness and shininess were greatly admired, and rarity, as with whale teeth among Polynesians or shell in the highlands of PNG, enabled particular objects to connote wealth, prestige, and power. 

Adornment among the highland people is among the most colorful and spectacular in Papua New Guinea, particularly during festivals, where it reflects the strength and pride of the various groups of the region. 

 Artistic expression, there, is conveyed largely through body art. Diverse in both media and application, the major components of Highlands body ornamentation as we mentioned above include bird of paradise plumes, body paint, and an enormous variety of decorative objects made from shell, teeth, beetles, orchid stem, fur, bone, bark, wood, and fiber. Moriarty recognized the importance of this art and its central position in the broader context of art. A visionary in any age, he not only developed a unique collection of body decoration from the Highlands of New Guinea collected between 1850 and 1880, but saw to it that this collection remained intact by donating it to the AGNSW. Today it is part of what is possibly the world's most important accumulation of this art.

We carry many other artifacts we collect direct from the tribes, in East and West Papua and the Trobriands and remote islands of Indonesia

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 available. If you have any questions or want to see research conducted on this piece and photos of tribes, let us know.