Panneau d’esprit "gope" · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Golfe, cours supérieur de la rivière Era, village d’Aime · ID: 3053529
Prix d'appel
5 000 €
Prix d'Estimation
8 000 €
Provenance
Stolper Galleries, Munich, Germany (1972)Arno Henseler, Munich, Germany
Taille
H: 171,5 cm
H: 67.5 inch
Description
wood, pigments,
The painting of the carved boards with red ochre conferred “heat”, menace, or dangerous power “imunu” on these objects, and the addition of skulls, and age itself, increased “imunu”.
Together with other sacred objects they were kept in large communal men’s houses divided into cubicles, each allotted to a particular clan or subclan.
Littérature comparée
Hamson, Michael, The Art of the Papuan Gulf, Los Angeles 2010, p. 36 f.