Zemanek-Münster

Suspension hook in shape of a mask face ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik · ID: 3032502

Vendu 1 500 €
Provenance
Joel Gauvin, South Brunswick/Victoria, Australia

Description

heavy wood, brown patina, white pigment, painted with curved ornaments, nose with pierced septum, drilling for suspension on top, sickle-shaped hook, slightly dam., cracks, abrasion;
while utilitarian hooks were only rarely carved, those used in the Men’s House were elaborately sculpted as representations of important ancestors and mythological beings.


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