Post-shaped sculpture with two anthropomorphic heads
Papua New Guinea - Korewori
sold
EUR 3,000
Provenance
collected in situSize
H: 97 cm
H: 38.2 inch
Description
wood, encrusted dark brown patina, the natural form of the tree trunk with two crutches recognizable, carved with two anthropomorphic heads arranged one upon the other, curvilinear ornaments and diadem-like crowning, slightly dam., on metal plate;
presumably depicting a kind of “earth mother”, called “tunegatsir” or “gergar”.