Bark painting · Papua New Guinea - Washkuk Hills, Kwoma · ID: 3047901
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.
The object Bark painting with the object ID 3047901 was part of the auction 96th Auction on April 24, 2021. The object with the lot number 45 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600 with an asking price of EUR 1,500.
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Comparing literature
Bowden, Ross, Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea, Melbourne 2006, p. 10 ff.