23rd Aug, 2022 9:30
Ethnographic Art
A Lower Sepik River house mask, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, carved and painted with coloured pigments, with turned bone eyes above a long nose with applied boars tusks and cowrie shells, the mouth modelled in relief with applied mud inlaid with cowrie shells, framed by a fibrous collar, 112.5cm high, approx 41cm at widest point
The Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.
Sold for £100
A Lower Sepik River house mask, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, carved and painted with coloured pigments, with turned bone eyes above a long nose with applied boars tusks and cowrie shells, the mouth modelled in relief with applied mud inlaid with cowrie shells, framed by a fibrous collar, 112.5cm high, approx 41cm at widest point
ProvenanceThe Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.
