Nosepiece

The nasal jewelry consists of two separate, spiral-cut pieces of Cymbium shell.The ends of these are connected by peeling strips.Although this object was not collected from the Asmat but from the Auyu (Awjoe) located east of the Asmat, it is discussed here as an Asmat object.\ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊIn fact, it does not differ in form from the type of nasal jewelry called "bipanew" by the Asmat.ÊÊÊÊÊÊThe Asmat …