An Iatmul orator's stool

An Iatmul orator's stool
Papua New Guinea
the curved back with carved stylised decoration and with a standing female figure with inset cowrie shell eyes and previously with resin/mud to the top of the head, her right arm inscribed MANIAMA, with an oval seat having two ancestor mask supports to a domed base, with earth and white pigments,
86cm high.

Provenance
Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.
Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 150.