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Ancestral board "gope" ·  Papua New Guinea - Golf, Wapo Creek · ID: 3039328

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Size
H: 93 cm
H: 36.6 inch

Description

wood, middle brown patina, white pigment, carved with a stylized ancestor figure with raised contours, slightly dam., minor missing parts (raised struts), fine cracks, metal base


The object Ancestral board “gope” with the object ID 3039328 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 70.

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Comparing literature

Newton, Douglas, Art Styles of the Papuan Gulf, New York 1961, p. 66


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