A Malagan figural post totok New Ireland

A Malagan figural post totok

New Ireland, Melanesia

the standing figure with a crested headdress and with inset opercula shell eyes, within an open framework and pigment decoration, with typed collection number 1494,

144.5cm high.

Provenance

Christian Frangene, Australia.

Christie's, London, Important Primitive Art, 20 May 1969, lot 171.

Bonhams, Los Angeles, African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art, 6 December 2016, lot 99.