Louche avec manche décoré, fin 19e / début 20e siècle · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Îles de l´Amirauté, Manus Island · ID: 3047476
Vendu
1 300 €
Provenance
Private Collection Stuttgart, Germany (before 1960)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.
Littérature comparée
Kaufmann, Christian & Christin Kocher Schmid et. al., Admirality islands, Museum Rietberg Zürich 2002, p. 130, ill. 38