Figure masculine rituelle · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Sud Abelam / Wosera · ID: 3050369
Vendu
800 €
Provenance
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, GermanyCornette de Saint Cyr, Paris-Drouot, 28 June 2001, Lot 129
Hessian Private Collection, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2016, Lot 71
Description
wood, colour pigments,
Presumably depicting an important ancestor. The figure might have been crowned by a hornbill, resp. hornbill head as clan emblem or emblem of headhunting.