Neckrest ·  Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3035607

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, bamboo, rattan, slightly vaulted pillow, on both ends carved with lying ancestor spirit figures with crocodile heads, incised curvilinear ornaments on the underside, legs in shape of fire-bent bamboo bars, fixed with rattan at the base (missing on one side), slightly dam., missing parts (body of one of the ancestor figures, rims)

The object Neckrest with the object ID 3035607 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 57.

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