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| | An Abelam Figure Panel, Wosera area, East Sepik, New Guinea | | The stylised figure standing with the hands on the thighs, the head surmounted by a hornbill standing on two hornbill heads, painted in colours, the back hollowed.
172 cm. high
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| Losnummer: 155
Provenance :
Prof. Josef Oberberger, Munich (1905 - 1994), artist and academy professor
Arno Henseler, Munich
Such figure panels, representing powerful clan spirits, nggwalndu, were displayed in groups in the men’s house, korombo, in the Abelam area during a long series of initiation rituals, sakindu, which could take from twenty to thirty years to complete. They are painted in colours considered by the Abelam to have magical properties giving the figures their beauty and power. They are frequently surmounted by one or more hornbills, one of the Abelam’s most important totemic symbols.
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Veranstaltungshinweise:
Am 27.01.2015 Auktion 1045: Afrikanische und Ozeanische Kunst | | |
Schätzpreis: 10.000 - 15.000 EURO
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