A Feasting Bowl
A Feasting BowlEstimate $3,000 – $5,000
LAKE SENTANI, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
carved hardwood, ground lime, black natural earth pigments
LENGTH: 48CM
Provenance:
Collected by Mr. Max Boers in the mid 1950s; thence by descent
Private collection
Cf. Suzanne Greub, Art of Northwest New Guinea, New York: Rizzoli, 1992, figs.440-442, p.114, for similar examples collected during the Sepik River Expedition of 1912-1913.