Ceremonial axe · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Mount Hagen · ID: 3033702
Vendu
450 €
Description
wooden shaft with brown patina, black paint, red pigment, artificially plaited rotan cuff with T-shaped projecting arms, a flat blade of slaty-like stone on one side and a blade-shaped projection of hard wood on the opposite, decorated with fine grooves and diamond-shaped ornament in red paint, slightly dam., minor missing parts;
axes of that kind were produced for ceremonial purposes, because of their great value used as primitive money.
Littérature comparée
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, ill. 343