"Malagan" head sculpture · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland · ID: 3053740
Starting price
EUR 3,000
Estimated price
EUR 6,000
Provenance
Franz Boluminski (1863-1913), Kavieng, New Ireland, coll. in situ between 1900 and 1913Anton Eckert, Munich, Germany
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 27,5 cm
H: 10.8 inch
Description
wood, pigments, hair, shell inlay, inscription: “W. Neu-Mecklenburg. Slg. Boluminski” (Collection Boluminski)
The present “malagan” head comes from the collection of Franz Boluminski. Boluminski (1863–1913) was a German colonial official who, from around the turn of the century, was stationed in Kavieng in northern New Ireland, then known as Neu-Mecklenburg. There he assembled extensive ethnographic collections, including in particular “malagan” and “uli” carvings. More than 1,000 objects entered German museums through his donations. Part of his collection was transferred to Munich after his death.
Publications
Conru, Kevin, Ernst Heinrich, An Extraordinary Collector, Brussels 2025, p. 217