Lot n° 281
Estimation :
400 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 300EUR
A large jar used to preserve sago flour, it features the myt - Lot 281
A large jar used to preserve sago flour, it features the mythical figure of a humanized pig, its nose curved in the shape of a beak, a divinity linked to myths associating the discovery of sago pulp and the invention of this pottery by a woman.
Fired clay with remnants of black and white pigments, forming an ancestral decoration on the torso and face.
Iatmul population, Aibom village, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea
(small age-related chips on neck, old patina and wear marks)
Height 60 cm - Width 35 cm
A certificate of authenticity from expert Serge Reynes will be given to the buyer.
Bibliography: we can compare this jar with the one collected by Heino Heine, before 1910 and preserved in the Berlin Museum of Ethnography, ( inv. VI 30166 ), reproduced in the book Sepik, Skira edition, Musée du Quai Branly, page 136.
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