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.

Comparing literature

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