Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 377
Five Abelam daggers
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £377
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Description
Five Abelam daggers
Papua New Guinea
cassowary bone, with stylised carved decoration, including a lizard with red pigment, one with three stars and three repeated bands with red pigment and collection F.93, one with two stars and a flying squirrel, with handwritten label Maurok/Magapita - Mamblep, 28.8.62 Kivulamaggura main design both bands. Gwarin - flying squirrel? (tagwa) star design.,
the longest 41cm. (5)
Provenance
Anthony Forge, 1929 - 1992, Anthropologist.