Ritual dance club "napa" · Solomon Islands - Santa Cruz Islands, Ndende · ID: 3053718
Starting price
EUR 2,000
Estimated price
EUR 4,000
Provenance
Etienne Loppé, La Rochelle, FranceAlexander Kubetz, Munich, Germany
Size
L: 100,5 cm
L: 39.6 inch
Description
wood, earth pigments, grass fibres, collection label “Depot Coll. Dr. Loppé”, base
With a typical canoe-shaped corpus, traditional painting and abstract faces.
These clubs are traditionally attributed to Ndende island but are in fact found across the Santa Cruz island group in the eastern Solomon Islands.
Comparing literature
Conru, Kevin, Solomon Islands Art, Milan 2008, p. 127, ill. 74