African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021
Lot 894
A Papua New Guinea sago beater
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £250
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Description
A Papua New Guinea sago beater
Melanesia
with leaf fibre binding to the palmwood and wood elements,
84cm long,
a Massim adze, 33cm long, a Moim fibre bound bamboo barbed spear tip, 44ccm long, a Papua New Guinea bamboo (diseased) pipe with burnt decoration, 23cm long, a bentwood axe handle with red pigment, collected in 1945, 24.6cm long, a Maprik model snake, 33.2cm long and a shuttle, 25.6cm long. (7)
Provenance
Dr Leonhard Adam (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer.
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.
Collected between 1974 and 1977.