African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021

Lot 913

An Abelam yam mask

Estimate £200 - £300

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Description

An Abelam yam mask

Papua New Guinea

woven fibre with pigment,

30.5cm high,

an Abelam standing female figure with pigment, 30.5cm high and a Ramu River hook mask, with pigment and cassowary feathers, 38cm high. (3)

Provenance

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

Collected between 1974 and 1977.