Peinture sur écorce · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Collines Washkuk, Kwoma · ID: 3047901
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1 600 €
Description
sago palm leaf-sheath, pigments, on velvet-covered plate
This bark painting once decorated a Kwoma men’s house “wayipanal”.
The majority of the barks on display in a men’s house represent totemic animals, plants and other entities belonging to the clans that own the structure.
Littérature comparée
Bowden, Ross, Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea, Melbourne 2006, p. 10 ff.