A Rare Headdress, Early 20th Century. Banks Island.

A beautifully fashioned Headdress from Banks Island, H24cm W50cm featuring a rattan and fibre construction, designed polychrome geometrical shapes with a wonderfully decorated seed dome top.
A similar piece with similar designs is published in Felix Speiser's 'Ethnology of Vanuatu' ,Colour Plate xxxvii and Plate 99. It was displayed in the Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig, 5311 first published in 1923. The famous Anthropologist spent two years from 1910-1912 collecting and studying in the field collecting and studying.
Ex Nicolai Michoutouchkine, Port Vila , Vanuatu. A Russian Artist and Exhibitor, famously known, with his partner Alois Pelioko ( originally from Wallis and Futuna) for exhibiting almost one thousand pieces from the Pacific in Europe over a period of 40 years beginning in 1967. Their exploits are too many to continue here.
Ex Private Collection, USA.
Price on request