Bark painting
Papua New Guinea - Washkuk Hills, Kwoma
sold
EUR 1,600
Size
H: 158 cm
B: 46 cm
H: 62.2 inch
B: 18.1 inch
Description
sago palm leaf-sheath, pigments, on velvet-covered plate
This bark painting once decorated a Kwoma men’s house “wayipanal”.
The majority of the barks on display in a men’s house represent totemic animals, plants and other entities belonging to the clans that own the structure.