Day 1 - Tribal Art the Americas, Indonesia & Oceania - 18th September 2019
Lot 1477
A Malagan figural post totok New Ireland
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1800
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Description
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.