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Lot 15 : Female ancestor figure - Sepik, Papua-Neuguinea
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Female ancestor figure
Sepik, Papua-Neuguinea
wood, dull blackish brown patina, small traces of curvilinear painting, rising from thin, fragmentary legs, supporting a strong, block-like trunk with the arms carved close to the body, a massive neck carrying an outsized, elongated head with slanting face halves, culminating in a raised vertical middle ridge, the eyes with nassa snail inlay, flanking a flat nose with broad nostrils, traces of curvilinear paint, repainted (face, right leg), paint rubbed off, on base
H: 51 cm, (5002/001)
Provenance:
Galerie Folkmar von Kolczynski, Stuttgart, Germany





