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Planche-esprit "gope" ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Golfe · ID: 3049764

Vendu 2 000 €
Provenance
Emile Deletaille, Brussels, Belgium
Lempertz, Brussels, 24. October 2018, Lot 137

Description

wood, pigment residues,

The painting of the carved boards with red ochre confered “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.


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