Male ritual figure · Papua New Guinea, South Abelam / Wosera · ID: 3050369

Name: Male ritual figure
SKU: 3050369
Price: 800 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 800

Provenance

Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany
Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris-Drouot, 28 June 2001, Lot 129
Hessian Private Collection, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2016, Lot 71

Size

H: 149 cm

H: 58.7 inch

Description

wood, colour pigments,

Presumably depicting an important ancestor. The figure might have been crowned by a hornbill, resp. hornbill head as clan emblem or emblem of headhunting.

Oceania

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