African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021
Lot 893
A Lower Sepik flute stopper
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £600
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Description
A Lower Sepik flute stopper
Pinang Village, Papua New Guinea
of a standing female figure with inset shell eyes,
33cm high,
two Wokam, Ramu River amulet figures, the larger with shell eyes and the smaller in a fibre bag with applied dog's teeth, 27cm and 17cm high and a Gulf Province bioma janus amulet figure, with differing carving to either side and with pigment, 20.5cm high. (5)
Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.
Collected between 1975 and 1978.