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Horizontal 'malagan' frieze 'kobokobor'
Neu-Irland, Papua-Neuguinea

light-weighted wood (Alstonia scholaris), painted with red, black and white pigment, eyes with shell inlay (Turbo petholatus), filigree openwork design, carved intricately in three dimensions, in structural form arranged bisymmetrical around a central focus: a pair of frigate birds, arranged back to back on either side, while the finials depict the tusked head of a big-mouth fish, which is used as an image of death, slightly dam., minor missing parts, cracks, paint rubbed off, old places of repair, small traces of insect caused damage;
with the term 'malagan' the natives indicate carved figures as well as certain ceremonies, associated with the commemoration of the dead. If someone dies on Northern Ireland, the relatives are engaged to accomplish a cycle of rites, which is called the 'completion of work for the death' ('haisok ine mamat'). The accomplishment of these complex rites takes several years. Two years after the burial the 'haram gom' rite takes place, where the house of the deceased is burned down, as a symbolic sign for dissolving the connection between the family of the dead and his relatives in-law. The 'kobokobor' frieze appears during the climactic final of the 'malagan' ceremonies. A 'malagan' display house is errected and the vertically oriented 'eikuar' frieze placed in the centre of the sculptural array, standing above the horizontal 'kobokobor' friezes. Pigs are sacrificed in front of the 'display wall' and the 'malagan' rights of the deceased were passed on to subsequent generations.
L: 230 cm, (5265/001)

Provenance:
Coll. René & Madeleine Junod, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland(1920)
Auktionshaus Fischer, Luzern, Switzerland (1987)
Private Collection, Switzerland

Lit.: Appel, Michaela, Ozeanien, Weltbilder der Südsee, München 2005, p. 108 f.
Gunn, Michael, Ritual Arts of Oceania - New Ireland - in the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genf, Mailand 1997, fig. 111, 112
Gunn, Michael, New Ireland, Paris 2006, p. 204

Horizontal 'malagan' frieze 'kobokobor'
Neu-Irland, Papua-Neuguinea

light-weighted wood (Alstonia scholaris), painted with red, black and white pigment, eyes with shell inlay (Turbo petholatus), filigree openwork design, carved intricately in three dimensions, in structural form arranged bisymmetrical around a central focus: a pair of frigate birds, arranged back to back on either side, while the finials depict the tusked head of a big-mouth fish, which is used as an image of death, slightly dam., minor missing parts, cracks, paint rubbed off, old places of repair, small traces of insect caused damage;
with the term 'malagan' the natives indicate carved figures as well as certain ceremonies, associated with the commemoration of the dead. If someone dies on Northern Ireland, the relatives are engaged to accomplish a cycle of rites, which is called the 'completion of work for the death' ('haisok ine mamat'). The accomplishment of these complex rites takes several years. Two years after the burial the 'haram gom' rite takes place, where the house of the deceased is burned down, as a symbolic sign for dissolving the connection between the family of the dead and his relatives in-law. The 'kobokobor' frieze appears during the climactic final of the 'malagan' ceremonies. A 'malagan' display house is errected and the vertically oriented 'eikuar' frieze placed in the centre of the sculptural array, standing above the horizontal 'kobokobor' friezes. Pigs are sacrificed in front of the 'display wall' and the 'malagan' rights of the deceased were passed on to subsequent generations.
L: 230 cm, (5265/001)

Provenance:
Coll. René & Madeleine Junod, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland(1920)
Auktionshaus Fischer, Luzern, Switzerland (1987)
Private Collection, Switzerland

Lit.: Appel, Michaela, Ozeanien, Weltbilder der Südsee, München 2005, p. 108 f.
Gunn, Michael, Ritual Arts of Oceania - New Ireland - in the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genf, Mailand 1997, fig. 111, 112
Gunn, Michael, New Ireland, Paris 2006, p. 204