Leg of a bed "patapat" · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Îles de l´Amirauté · ID: 3037956
Description
wood, middle brown patina, tripartite construction: massive base on disc-shaped foot, carved with a janus-half figure, originally crowned by a plug-shaped projection (now missing), which served for mortizing into the framing of the bed, dam., minor missing parts (ears), cracks, abrasion of paint, base;
so-called “patapats” form part of the brides dowry. Feastful adorned sitting on a “patapat” the bride was carried to her future husbands house. The beds played an important role at burial rites as well. The common canoe-prow like decoration reminds of the imagination of “soul-boats” we know from Indonesia.
L’objet Leg of a bed “patapat” avec l’ID d’objet 3037956 a fait partie de l’enchère 79th Tribal Art Auction en 21 mars 2015 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 53.
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Littérature comparée
Ohnemus, Sylvia, Zur Kultur der Admiralitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel 1996, p. 281 ff.