Ancestor figure ·  Papua New Guinea - Gulf · ID: 3035708

Description

wood, dark brown patina, red and white pigment in the deepenings, flat corpus with curved limbs, cut out in silhouette, the fond slightly deepened, carved with curvilinear ornaments in bas-relief, slightly dam., missing parts (left shoulder/arm), rep. (left leg), abrasion of paint;
a kind of figural “gope”-board or a “bioma” figure.

The object Ancestor figure with the object ID 3035708 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 30 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.

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Comparing literature

Hamson, Michael, Red Eye of the Sun, Los Angeles 2010, p. 51