Very beautiful ornament of male necklace, ending with a crocodile head in ochre-tinted basketry holding a shell in its mouth. Sepik, Papua New Guinea Basketry of vegetable fibers, warthog teeth, shells, and mother-of-pearl, beautiful patina of use. H. 30 cm approximately Provenance : - Collected by Pierre Langlois and Marcel Évrard in 1959-60 - Former collection of Marcel Évrard Exhibition and publication : - Oceania at the CRACAP (National Center of Research of Animation and Creation for the Plastic Arts) 1971, fig.42 of the catalog