Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 154
An Upper Sepik River sago ladle
Estimate £200 - £300
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Description
An Upper Sepik River sago ladle
Papua New Guinea
with a coconut shell bowl and rattan bound long wood handle with carved stylised heads to the terminal, faintly inscribed in white crayon SEPIK RIVER ... R L DAWSON 1.4.51,
94cm long.
Provenance
R. L. Dawson.
Dr Leonard Adam Private Collection (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer.