African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021

Lot 897

An Abelam dance crest Deoo

Estimate £300 - £500

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Description

An Abelam dance crest Deoo

Wosera, Papua New Guinea

carved both sides with hornbills and a mask, with natural pigment and painted decoration,

103cm high.

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.

Collected in 1974.