Headboard bed panel · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands, Manus · ID: 3042925
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Provenance
Alan Dunfee, Cumming, USAMichael 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)
The object Headboard bed panel with the object ID 3042925 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 31.
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Comparing literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia, Zur Kultur der Admiralitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel 1996, p. 282