Couple of figures ·  Caroline Islands, Yap Islands · ID: 3034567

Description

the male figure, h: 46 cm, of heavy grained wood, the body coated with traditional tattoos carved in flat relief and accentuated by black paint, waistband of red cloth and plant fiber bast, moustache, chignon coiffure, originally completed by a comb (drilled hole for insertion), crack (neck); female figure, h: 44 cm, of light-coloured soft wood, accents with black paint (coiffure, eyes), wearing a bast skirt, age crack from hip to ear on the left side of the body, water spots, collection numbers below bases “52-9” male figure and “52-10” female figure (=deaccessioned Standford University Museum of Art);
elaborate work, quite rare ! Probably carved between 1930 - 1950, remittance work.

The object Couple of figures with the object ID 3034567 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 70 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.

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