Louche avec manche décoré, fin 19e / début 20e siècle
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Îles de l´Amirauté, Manus Island
Vendu
1 300 €
Provenance
Private Collection Stuttgart, Germany (before 1960)Taille
H: 22 cm
D: 11,5 cm
H: 8.7 inch
D: 4.5 inch
Description
wood, coconut shell, putty mass, minor missing part, rest.
A specimen very similar in design, collected in 1899, is in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, inv. no. VI 17405 (see ill.: Kaufmann, 2002, p. 131, fig. 38).
Nevermann reports that it was customary to present guests with such elaborate spoons as a gift at great festivities.