Ceremonial axe ·  Papua New Guinea - Mount Hagen · ID: 3033702

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.

The object Ceremonial axe with the object ID 3033702 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 71 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.

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Comparing literature

Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, ill. 343