African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15 Dec 2021

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A Lower Sepik flute stopper

£400 - £600 £600

A Lower Sepik flute stopper

Pinang Village, Papua New Guinea

of a standing female figure with inset shell eyes,

33cm high,

two Wokam, Ramu River amulet figures, the larger with shell eyes and the smaller in a fibre bag with applied dog's teeth, 27cm and 17cm high and a Gulf Province bioma janus amulet figure, with differing carving to either side and with pigment, 20.5cm high. (5)

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.

Collected between 1975 and 1978.

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