Standing female figure · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik · ID: 3040514
Description
wood, dyed with red pigment, accents with white pigment, accentuation of female sex characteristics, carved with nose ornament, drilled ear holes, slightly dam., minor missing parts, crack, rep. (bowl), abrasion of paint, base;
probably from the coastal area between the Sepik and Ramu rivers. This early figure relates to an example collected in 1884 on the Austrian naval corvette “Aurora” (now in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Wien).
It is told, that grieving widowers carved female figurines, depicting their spouse in the typical female pose of a birth giving woman. Apart from that female figures represent clan founders or creator beings and were kept in the men or ritual houses.
L’objet Standing female figure avec l’ID d’objet 3040514 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 83rd Tribal Art Auction dans 28 mai 2016. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 88 a atteint un prix de vente de 7 000 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 4 000 €.
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Littérature comparée
Peltier, Philippe et.al., Tanz der Ahnen, Zürich 2015, ill. 107
Publications
Conru Primitive Art (ed.), The colour of Melanesia, London, Brussels 1999, p. 11