Bark painting · Papua New Guinea · ID: 3038399
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Norman Hurst, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAB. Posthuma, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Size
H: 105 cm
B: 41,5 cm
H: 41.3 inch
B: 16.3 inch
Description
painted in traditional colours with white, black and red pigment, depicting a spirit being, with the body of a human and the head of a hornbill, collection number in red paint backside: “1963.53”, minor missing parts, cracks, abrasion of paint