Image of a hornbill "pal" · Papua New Guinea, Abelam · ID: 3040194

Name: Image of a hornbill "pal"
SKU: 3040194
Availability: Discontinued

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Provenance

Thorsten Grimme, Sydney, Australia

Size

H: 77 cm

H: 30.3 inch

Description

wood, red and yellow ochre, black pigment, traditionally flat worked with prominent beak, min. dam., water spots, slight traces of abrasion;
such hornbill images were attached to the front of ritual houses, two of them, one on the left and one on the right side underneath the frieze beam facing each other. When a new ritual house was errected the carvings were removed from the old house, they were washed and repainted and attached to the newly built ceremonial house.

The object Image of a hornbill “pal” with the object ID 3040194 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 36.

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