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
The object Prow ornament of a canoe with the object ID 3043279 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 23.
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Comparing literature
Kaeppler, Adrienne, Christian Kaufmann & Douglas Newton, Ozeanien, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1994, ill. 700