Trois pierres rituelles sphériques et mortier en pierre · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Hautes-Terres · ID: 3044141
Description
Cults associated with sacred stones were once prevalent throughout the highlands.
Sacred stones included oddly shaped river rocks or unearthed objects created by ancient highland cultures, such as mortars, pestles, club heads and zoomorphic figurines. Ancestral and other spirits resided in these earthly forms, establishing a link with the spiritual world.
The Enga people believed sacred stones were handed down from the “sky people” who came to earth and created mankind; others thought they were the petrified bones of the ancestors.
Stored in ritual houses or buried at sacred sites, stones were “fed” with the blood or fat of pigs on ritual occasions.
L’objet Trois pierres rituelles sphériques et mortier en pierre avec l’ID d’objet 3044141 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 89e vente aux enchères Tribal Art dans 7 juillet 2018 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 25 a atteint un prix de vente de 800 €.
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Littérature comparée
Friede, John et. al. (ed.), New Guinea Highlands, New York 2017, p. 32, ill. 1.23A and p. 424