Day 1 - Tribal Art the Americas, Indonesia & Oceania - 18th September 2019
Lot 1294
A Papua New Guinea bow Melanesia palmwood with lozenge carved decoration to the ends
Estimate £500 - £600
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Description
A Papua New Guinea bow
Melanesia
palmwood with lozenge carved decoration to the ends, the hand written identification label NATIVE BOW NEW GUINEA SAVAGE COLL; P. 1059,
187.5cm long.
Provenance
Edwin Bentley Savage Collection
Augustus H. Lane Fox Pitt Rivers Collection, Farnham, Dorset., acquired from above 20 October 1894.
Mrs Stella Pitt Rivers, Farnham, Dorset.
Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1981, lot 51 part.
Pitt Rivers notes from Savage that the bow is from Motumdu in the Elema district