Dish "gope" ·  Papua New Guinea - Gulf · ID: 3036626

Description

light wood, brown patina, white and red pigment, of elongated elliptical shape, the corpus slightly hollowed like a dish and without any ornament, the rim with ornamental decor in bas-relief with stylized faces on both endings, slightly dam., minor missing parts at the rim

The object Dish “gope” with the object ID 3036626 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 47.

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