Neckrest
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
sold
EUR 28,000
Size
H: 17 cm
B: 14 cm
H: 6.7 inch
B: 5.5 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, encrusted in some areas, red pigment, six caryatid figures, two of them are spirit figures (marked by long pointed noses) and two of them ancestor figures (marked by short noses), each in characteristic “beak style”, with identical formed bodies, slightly dam., minor missing parts (pillow, nose, base), rep. (breakage base/spirit figure), crack (pillow)