Ceremonial axe · Papua New Guinea - Mount Hagen · ID: 3033702
sold
EUR 450
Size
H: 47 cm
B: 64 cm
H: 18.5 inch
B: 25.2 inch
Description
wooden shaft with brown patina, black paint, red pigment, artificially plaited rotan cuff with T-shaped projecting arms, a flat blade of slaty-like stone on one side and a blade-shaped projection of hard wood on the opposite, decorated with fine grooves and diamond-shaped ornament in red paint, slightly dam., minor missing parts;
axes of that kind were produced for ceremonial purposes, because of their great value used as primitive money.
Comparing literature
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, ill. 343