Modèle de pirogue à balancier ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Baie de Humboldt · ID: 3042449

Description

light wood, red and black pigment, plant fibre, detailed reconstruction of outrigger with platform, boat corpus with incised and painted decor, slightly dam., breakage (prow ornament);
the model canoes were once used in a ritual performed for the sky god “Tehainga’atua”. Most of them were destroyed in 1938 when the first Christian missionaries arrived on the islands.

Littérature comparée

Conru, Kevin, Solomon Islands Art, Milan 2008, p. 83