African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021

Lot 907

A Mesingi hook mask

Estimate £200 - £300

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Description

A Mesingi hook mask

Ramu River, Papua New Guinea

with pigment,

50.5cm high,

and a Middle Sepik mei mask, with cowrie shell eyes, 35.5cm high. (2)

Provenance

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

Mesingi mask collected 1977, mei mask collected 1974.