23rd Aug, 2022 9:30
Ethnographic Art
A Sepik River ancestor figure, with cowrie shell eyes and long beak, 41.5cm, two South Seas animal bone carvings, the foreheads painted white, 37cm & 37.5cm and a South Seas wood shield, with incised geometric decoration painted in coloured pigments, a carved from solid handle to the rear, 112.5cm
The Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.
Sold for £120
A Sepik River ancestor figure, with cowrie shell eyes and long beak, 41.5cm, two South Seas animal bone carvings, the foreheads painted white, 37cm & 37.5cm and a South Seas wood shield, with incised geometric decoration painted in coloured pigments, a carved from solid handle to the rear, 112.5cm
ProvenanceThe Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.
