WITU ISLANDS, WEST NEW BRITAIN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
carved hardwood, red, white, black and blue pigments, woven fibres
HEIGHT: 160CM
Provenance:
Collected circa 1900
Herz Jesu Mission, Borgenhout, Antwerp
John Ioannou, Melbourne
Private collection
Literature:
K. Conru, The Colour of Melanesia, London and Brussels: Conru Primitive Art, 1999, pp.56-57 (illus.)
Harry Beran and Barry Craig (eds.), Shields of Melanesia, Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing Australia in association with Oceanic Arts Society, Sydney, 2005, p.231 (illus.).
This lot is sold with a copy of Harry Beran and Barry Craig (eds.), Shields of Melanesia, Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing Australia in association with Oceanic Arts Society, Sydney, 2005
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