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THBOpenwork Figure, Kopar / Angoram
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LiveNov 16, 2021
Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people. Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
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Openwork carved figure, Kopar / Angoram style, with white stripes, red and yellow pigment, shell and rope ornamentation. Anthropomorphic.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes a similar openwork figure attributed to the collection of Wolfgang Paalen, a Surrealist painter (1905-1959). as being used perhaps as dance wands. The long beak-like nose and lean body likely represent powerful spirits.
Similar figure held by the Uebersee-Museum in Bremen, Germany is described by Suzanne Greub (see Similar items below) in 1985 "In the area of Angoram … , figures of this kind seem to have been carried at dances tied to short bamboo wands."
Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Wood, pigment, shell, rope
Dimensions: H 26" / 66 cm
Technique: CarvedProvenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
Similar items:
2012 Bretagenes Encheres, attributed to the La Korrigane Expedition to the Sepik in 1934-36
https://www.artkhade.com/object/JIP3g6pYThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/3111681985 Greub, Suzanne (ed.) Authority and Ornament: Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. Tribal Art Center, Basel, plate 154, page 205.
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