Lot 322
  • 322

Zoomorphic Spear-Thrower Ornament, Lower Sepik River, Coastal Region, or Schouten Islands, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • wood
  • Length: 6 1/2 in (16.5 cm)

Provenance

Jay C. Leff, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, October 30, 1958, lot 178, consigned by the above
Dr. David V. Becker, New York, acquired at the above auction

Catalogue Note

For two closely related ornaments, the first in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, and the second in the JOLIKA Collection of Marcia and John Friede at the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, see Kelm 1968, no. 429, and Friede 2005, no. 88.