Ceremonial shield
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Kilenge, Ongola Village
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Müller Collection, Austria (acquired from a local village elder in Ongola, New Britain in the early 1950’s)Dione van Hal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Size
H: 95 cm
B: 18 cm
H: 37.4 inch
B: 7.1 inch
Description
light-weighted wood, natural pigments, the corpus tripartite, decorated with incised patterns (classical spiral motifs, zigzag pattern) and a superimposed mask face, carved handle on the back, drilled holes at the rim for attachment of plant fibre tufts and feathers, slightly dam., cracks (above all backside, a crack through the whole length spread with mass), traces of old age, socle