Ancestral board "gope" · Papua New Guinea - Golf, Purari Delta · ID: 3037649
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Nancy Bird Walton (1915-2009), New South Wales, AustraliaJoan Bowers Collection, Sydney, Australia
Nancy Bird Walton was the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot’s licence. She was seventeen at the time and the year was 1933. She became a pioneering Australian aviator, and was the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association.
Size
H: 131 cm
H: 51.6 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, white pigment, carved with the stylized figure of an ancestor spirit and cross-shaped emblem, the raised contours accentuated with brown paint, unusual form, slightly dam., small traces of insect caused damage (backside), crack (at the bottom)
The object Ancestral board “gope” with the object ID 3037649 was part of the auction 78th tribal art auction on October 18, 2014. The object with the lot number 27 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000 with an asking price of EUR 900.
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