Small ancestor board "gope" ·  Papua New Guinea - Golf, Urama Island, Port Moresby (?) · ID: 3037676

Description

wood, middle brown patina, the front side intricately carved with curvilinear undulating designs depicting an ancestral spirit, white pigment rubbed into the deepenings, collection number handwritten on the backside “AJP 982”, drilled hole on top, slightly dam., minor missing part at the rim, base

The object Small ancestor board “gope” with the object ID 3037676 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 26 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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