Ancestral board "gope"Papua New Guinea - Golf, Purari Delta
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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)