Specifications

• Height: 69 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: gari
• Price realised: € 11.500,- hp

Provenance

Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris 9-12-2014, lot 182.

Publications

Ref.: Baal, J. van (1966), Dema, description and analysis of Marind-Anim culture, p. 363

Exhibitions

Additional information

A similar pattern can be seen on a taboo sign reproduced in plate XXIV, nr 3, a ‘design refer either to the dead or to death generally’

Photo credits

Bergé & Associés, Paris