Specifications

• Height: 115 cm.
• Material: wood, pigments
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• Gender:
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: € 8.820,-

Provenance

Father Petrus Vertenten MSC (1884-1946); private collection, The Netherlands; Christie’s, Paris 17-6-2025, lot 111.

Publications

Exhibitions

Additional information

Small, leaf-like shield typical for the Awyu, living between the Mapi and Digul rivers. The configuration of the pattern is of an older type, most probably pre 1950. Three superimposed anthropomorphs seems to be depicted .

Photo credits

Christie’s, Paris