Zemanek-Münster

Prow ornament of a canoe ·  Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya) - Cenderawasih-Bay · ID: 3043279

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Size
H: 60,5 cm
B: 16 cm
H: 23.8 inch
B: 6.3 inch

Description

wood, matt brown patina, board-shaped flattened, top end in openwork design and with incised decor, two ancestral spirit heads in characteristic “korvar” style at the same place, slightly dam. (rim), surface strongly abraded and slightly stained, slightly dam., base


Comparing literature

Kaeppler, Adrienne, Christian Kaufmann & Douglas Newton, Ozeanien, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1994, ill. 700


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