Élément décoratif d´une tête de lit · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Îles de l´Amirauté, Manus · ID: 3042925
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Provenance
Alan Dunfee, Cumming, USAMichael Auliso, San Francisco, USA
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, black paint, white pigment, crowned by free carved ancestor spirit figures, each lying on the back in mirror-inverted arrangement, lizard heads emerging from their heads, ornamental decor, slightly dam., rep. (legs/arms)
Littérature comparée
Ohnemus, Sylvia, Zur Kultur der Admiralitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel 1996, p. 282