Food bowl ·  îles Salomon - Tikopia · ID: 3039362

Description

wood, matt reddish brown patina, boat-shaped corpus with projecting spouts at each end, classic Tikopa design: serrated sides, slightly dam., minor missing parts and fine crack (upper rim), abrasion of paint;
Tikopia is the southernmost inhabited island of the Solomons. Objects from this region are characterized by beauty of form and functionality.

Littérature comparée

Hurst, Norman, Power and Prestige, Cambridge 1996, p. 55