Head sculpture "malagan" · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland · ID: 3043511
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Provenance
Wolfgang Panzer, Heidelberg/Mainz, Germany, collected in situ (1931)Georg Elwert, Berlin, Germany (1993)
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 17 September 2011, lot 71
Dutch Collection
Size
H: 32 cm
H: 12.6 inch
Description
light-weighted wood, lime, red and black pigment, shell inlay, coiffure from blackish mass with inserted wooden splinters (now missing), ornamentally painted, plug-shaped projection, slightly dam., minor missing parts, cracks, rep. (left eye), paint rubbed off, base
The object Head sculpture “malagan” with the object ID 3043511 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 45.
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