Specifications

• Height: 130 cm.
• Material: wood, pigment, plant fibre
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• Gender:
• Indigenous name: goben (qobòen)
• Price realised: 

Provenance

Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich; Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine 23-4-2010, lot 171.

Publications

Exhibitions

Additional information

Awyu-style, but Yaqay lower Nambeomon river. Alternating red and white figures in the central plane is a Yaqay innovation on the line carvings on a white-pigmented ground. Tassels are rare (influence of the the Asmat?)

Photo credits

Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine.