Male ritual figure
Papua New Guinea, South Abelam / Wosera
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, GermanyCornette 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.