Watch List notes:

INDONESIA: FLORES ISLAND: pale gold earrings, Opitz pg. 135/36 (plate), locally known as olaewa or wea wunu wona, used as a engagement gift and also as a down payment for the dowry to be paid later, from the Central part of Flores Island, RR, ex Charles Opitz Collection. One of the more interesting types of Nage earrings in Boawai and Olaewa, Central Flores, these earrings are called wea wunu wona. Wea translates to gold, wula to leaves and wona to the name of a plant. This roughly translates to 'swinging leaves gold earrings'. (Rodgers, 1985).

Estimate: 600-800 USD