Register Auction 107
Zemanek-Münster
Neckrest with crocdile heads, Papua New Guinea - Sepik, Size: H: 13 cm L: 56,5 cm (H: 5.1 inch L: 22.2 inch), ID: 3053725
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Lot 241
Auction 107

Neckrest with crocdile heads ·  Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3053725

Starting price
EUR 6,000
Estimated price
EUR 10,000
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Provenance
collected in situ by a member of the Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss-Expedition (1912/1913)
Alexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 13 cm
L: 56,5 cm
H: 5.1 inch
L: 22.2 inch

Description

wood, pigments, bamboo, plant fibres, handwritten collection notes on the underside and on one of the legs “Kais. Aug. Fl. Exp.”

Crocodiles incarnate the so-called “gulping monster”, used at initiation rites.

Comparing literature

Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, p. 97, ill. 205 Reche, Otto, Der Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss, Hamburg 1913, p. 158, ill. 86

Oceania

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