Image of a hornbill "pal" · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Abelam · ID: 3040194
Description
wood, red and yellow ochre, black pigment, traditionally flat worked with prominent beak, min. dam., water spots, slight traces of abrasion;
such hornbill images were attached to the front of ritual houses, two of them, one on the left and one on the right side underneath the frieze beam facing each other. When a new ritual house was errected the carvings were removed from the old house, they were washed and repainted and attached to the newly built ceremonial house.
L’objet Image of a hornbill “pal” avec l’ID d’objet 3040194 a fait partie de l’enchère 82nd Tribal Art Auction en 27 février 2016 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 36.
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Littérature comparée
Koch, Gerd, Kultur der Abelam, Berlin 1968, p. 46 f.