Panel depicting Jesus Christ, 1950/60er ·  Papua New Guinea - Highlands, S. Quakamo · ID: 3044829

Description

wood, pigments, with Nimbus and blessing gesture sitting on a globe of the world (in reference to Christ Pantokrator - space or world ruler)

The wall panel is from a bush church in the village of Poglapena (Bukapena) in the Mount Hagen area, where S. Quakamo was a missionary in the 1950/60s. The object is documented in an old black and white photograph.

Old postcards show other works by S. Quakamo, several panels that were created by him for the evangelist lutheran church in Kotna in the Highland area of ​​Papua.

The object Panel depicting Jesus Christ, 1950/60er with the object ID 3044829 was last part of the auction 90.I Tribal Art and 90.II Contemporary Native American Art at November 17, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 57.

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