Suspension hook ·  Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3035699

Description

wood, matt dark brown patina, flat corpus, carved with a crocodile in bas-relief to the front and to the back, sickle-shaped hook with ornamental decor, two drilled holes for suspension, slightly dam., minor missing parts (tip of the snout), cracks;
while utilitarian hooks were only rarely carved, those used in the Men’s House were elaborately sculpted as representations of important ancestors and mythological beings.

The object Suspension hook with the object ID 3035699 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 37 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000.

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