Spirit board "gope" · Papua New Guinea - Gulf · ID: 3049764
sold
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Emile Deletaille, Brussels, BelgiumLempertz, Brussels, 24. October 2018, Lot 137
Size
H: 54 cm
H: 21.3 inch
Description
wood, pigment residues,
The painting of the carved boards with red ochre confered “heat”, menace, or dangerous power “imunu” on these objects, and the addition of skulls, and age itself, increased “imunu”.
Together with other sacred objects they were kept in large communal men’s houses divided into cubicles, each allotted to a particular clan or subclan.
The object Spirit board “gope” with the object ID 3049764 was last part of the auction 101st Auction at November 11, 2023 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 10 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.
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