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Headboard bed panel, Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands, Manus, Size: B: 64 cm (B: 25.2 inch), ID: 3042925
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Lot 31
87th Tribal Art Auction

Headboard bed panel ·  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands, Manus · ID: 3042925

not available anymore
Provenance
Alan Dunfee, Cumming, USA
Michael Auliso, San Francisco, USA
Size
B: 64 cm
B: 25.2 inch

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, black paint, white pigment, crowned by free carved ancestor spirit figures, each lying on the back in mirror-inverted arrangement, lizard heads emerging from their heads, ornamental decor, slightly dam., rep. (legs/arms)

Comparing literature

Ohnemus, Sylvia, Zur Kultur der Admiralitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel 1996, p. 282

Oceania

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