Ancestor spirit board "gope" ·  Papua-Neuguinea - April River, Bitara · ID: 3040146

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Description

wood, brown paint, remains of red ocre, lime, carved with a spirit face above a series of stacked undulating motifs, raised sun- and “bipane” motifs, slightly dam., missing parts through insect caused damage (above all backside and on the upper rim), metal base

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Publications

Galerie Flak (ed.), Rites et Formes de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, Paris 2009, p. 93

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