Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21st February 2018
Lot 558
Four Bougainville Island spears Solomon Islands palmwood
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £320
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Description
Four Bougainville Island spears
Solomon Islands
palmwood, with carved figures, two finely bound with red and yellow grass fibre along the majority of the shaft, another with small remains, two with tightly compressed leaf knops, two with remains of grass barbs,
210cm, 275cm, 294cm and 306cm long. (4)
Provenance
London Art Market, 1920's/30's and thence by descent.
cf. Deborah White and Kevin Conru. Solomon Islands Art, The Conru Collection, 2008, p.130, p.77.