INSTANT PAPUA GUINEA (PNG) SEPIK COLLECTION…WITH STANDS
Item History & Price
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INSTANT PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG) SEPIK COLLECTION…WITH STANDS!!!!Forsale is a collection of six PNG Sepik artefacts as described below.Age range fro early to late 1900s. ARTEFACT TYPE SIZE (CM) DESCRIPTION Bowl 18 x 8 Carved coconut bowl - incised design with good use patina - probably used as a sieve as it has holes in the base Handle 50 x 17 Papua New Guinea Manum Island ladle handle - has 6 spirit faces/masks - in good strong condition and with good age and great... patina Mask 15 x 6 Small Coastal Sepik amulet mask - blackened patina - encrustation through tribal use – probably used as a charm attached to a hunter’s billum bag Pounder 29 x 5 Coastal Sepik River area sago pounder with figurative finial - deep patina & encrustation from tribal handling & use – wear on the inner arm shows it was used with attachments on the arms Spear-Thrower Ornament 24 x 5 Weight for bamboo spear thrower mid-section where it is bound in place - carved in the form of a highly abstracted bird - ex Mossgreen auction 22/7/2014: Lot 210 Stirrer 47 x 4 Small sago stirrer with undecorated shaft & human head carved at the handle end - has rich patina from age & tribal use - field collected by Richard Aldridge August 2014 from Wokam Village, Lower Ramu River Allcome with custom made museum quality stands.Thisis a good opportunity to buy an excellent bulk lot of smalls, which undoubtedlywould enhance any serious Oceanic collection!Sellingbecause I need to downsize my PNG collection.PostageAustralia = $50PostageOverseas = $80
