Ritual object ·  Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3036769

Description

wood, matt greyish brown patina, round shaft, paddle-shaped head piece, carved with two stylized ancestral faces and crocodile snout, forked projection with anthropomorphic figure in bas-relief, old collection number “PK135”, slightly dam., abrasion of paint

The object Ritual object with the object ID 3036769 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 50 achieved a sales price of EUR 250.

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