Food bowl ·  Solomon Islands - Tikopia · ID: 3039362

Description

wood, matt reddish brown patina, boat-shaped corpus with projecting spouts at each end, classic Tikopa design: serrated sides, slightly dam., minor missing parts and fine crack (upper rim), abrasion of paint;
Tikopia is the southernmost inhabited island of the Solomons. Objects from this region are characterized by beauty of form and functionality.

The object Food bowl with the object ID 3039362 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 104 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500.

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Comparing literature

Hurst, Norman, Power and Prestige, Cambridge 1996, p. 55