Museum-style glass entomological box (21x30x5cm), featuring a New Guinea Papuan bracelet in the middle, carved from a large cone (a venomous shell from the Coral Sea) and surrounded by six large, rare butterflies of the Nymphalidae family, of various genera and species, all from the Moluccan Islands, Sulawesi or, in some cases, Irian Jaya, the Indonesian western part of Papua New Guinea.
The top row features two nymphalids from the Moluccas, showing their dorsal sides with two well-defined eye-spots, while the bottom row displays butterflies of very similar genera, collected in the Manokwari forest (Irian Jaya) and showing their ventral sides with not two but four large eye-spots, imitating the eyes of predatory birds.
The box is as good as new and the butterflies in perfect condition.