Day 1 - Tribal Art the Americas, Indonesia & Oceania - 18th September 2019
Lot 1255
A Lower Sepik house post Kambot Peoples
Estimate £200 - £300
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Description
A Lower Sepik house post
Kambot Peoples, Papua New Guinea
with two opposing ancestor masks and crocodile heads, with pigment, with card collection label 253,
87cm high, on a stand. (2)
Provenance
Collected in PNG by Steijler Missionaries S.V.D. exchanged with Father Höltker, a former missionary in PNG between 1935 - 38 at Sankt Augustin Missionary, Germany.
Ex German Museum, inventory number 253.
Ex European Private Collection.