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Shells are Gold - More Shell Bilas

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Cut shell armband with bilum string and trade bead wrapping from the Papuan Gulf.

[Shell bracelet: 37k]

[Girl wearing bailer shell: 27k]

The beautifully painted face of this young woman from Mt. Hagen echoes the oval shapes of her shell bilas.

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Artifacts on this site are collected in the field by my husband, Ron Perry. I take the photographs, do the html, text and maps. More background in Who We Are. Art-Pacific has been on the WWW since 1996. We hope you enjoy our New Guinea tribal art and Indonesian folk art as much as we do. Carolyn Leigh, P.O. Box 85284, Tucson, AZ 85754-5284 USA, Art-Pacific at http://www.art-pacific.com/