Prehistoric pestle · Papua New Guinea - Southern Highlands, Tari Basin · ID: 3052666
Sold
EUR 500
Provenance
J. Erkila, Missionary in Tari area during the 1950sSotheby’s, Sidney, November 9, 1997, lot 425
John & Marcia Friede, Rye, USA
Size
M: 28,3 cm x 8,4 cm x 7,0 cm
M: 11.1 inch x 3.3 inch x 2.8 inch
Description
andesite,
Simple pestle, which could be used to crush taro (water bread root), for example.
The object Prehistoric pestle with the object ID 3052666 was last part of the auction Auction 105 at November 15, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 133 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.
Comparing literature
Swadling, Pamela et al., Prehistoric stone artefacts from Enga (...), in: Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 126-127, Année 2008.
Publications
Friede, John et al., New Guinea Highlands, 2017, p. 24-25, ill. 1.13D
Notices
This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).