Beater ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik · ID: 3041466

Description

middle brown patina, handle in shape of anthropomorphic head rising from long neck, flat oval beating area with band ornament around rim, slightly dam., crack;
such beaters served for opening coconuts which were used for ritual purposes.

Littérature comparée

Greub, Suzanne (ed.), Kunst am Sepik, Basel 1985, ill. 56