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THBPapua New Guinea Carved & Painted Wood Bullroarer
Lot 175a
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Australia, Papua New Guinea, Upper Sepik, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A hardwood bull roarer - an aerophone in the form of a thin blade that makes a roaring (hence the name), howling sound when whirled through the air on a cord threaded through the perforation at one end. The piece is meticulously hand-carved and painted with organic pigments of red, brown, and white hues. As is traditional, this example presents abstract visages and curvilinear motifs. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York curatorial team, "In Papua New Guinea, bullroarers hold a traditional place of honor in men’s ceremonial clubhouses. The Namau people of the Purari River Delta used them during funerals of important men and called them imunu viki ("weeping spirits"). " (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504985) Size: 26.5" L x 5.375" W (67.3 cm x 13.7 cm)
This ancient instrument customarily consists of an oblong slat of wood with a hole at end through which a long string is tied. When the slat is rapidly swung in a circular motion through the air it rotates on its long axis to created a whirring sound. In some regions of the Pacific, bullroarers are secular instruments or children's toys; however, for many peoples they have traditionally been and continue to be ritual objects.
Provenance: ex-old private New England, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s; ex-private Florida, USA collection
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#140543Normal surface wear, wear/abrasions to peripheries, and some fading to pigments, commensurate with age.Condition
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