Outrigger canoe model
Papua New Guinea - Humboldt Bay
sold
EUR 1,500
Provenance
Douglas Barrett, London, Great BritainMichael Evans, Djion, France
Size
L: 80 cm
B: 72 cm (outrigger)
L: 31.5 inch
B: 28.3 inch (outrigger)
Description
light wood, red and black pigment, plant fibre, detailed reconstruction of outrigger with platform, boat corpus with incised and painted decor, slightly dam., breakage (prow ornament);
the model canoes were once used in a ritual performed for the sky god “Tehainga’atua”. Most of them were destroyed in 1938 when the first Christian missionaries arrived on the islands.