Big male ritual figure · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Abelam · ID: 3035564
Vendu
2 200 €
Provenance
German Private Collection, collected in situ in the 1940’sDescription
wood, painted in the traditional colours (red and yellow ochre, white and black), the arms close to the body, painted bracelets of trochus shell “duamal”, crowned by a hornbill, the neck carved with “wings”, dam., minor missing parts, strong abrasion of paint, rep. (upper half of the beak), socle;
presumably depicting a male ancestor, the hornbill representing a clan emblem, head-hunting and ancestral symbol.