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Property from the Estate of William Kohler
A LARGE NEW GUINEA SHIELD
TAMBANAM VILLAGE ON THE SEPIK RIVER
細節
A LARGE NEW GUINEA SHIELD
Tambanam Village on the Sepik River
of tall oval form, a face carved on the upper third, the circular eyes within shaped panels, shallow nose and projecting tongue which falls to a central raised vertical board pierced at intervals for fiber ties, the whole carved in low relief with scrolls, triangles about the border, painted pinkish-brown, black and white, double handle of wood and fiber on the reverse
84¼in. (214cm.) high
Tambanam Village on the Sepik River
of tall oval form, a face carved on the upper third, the circular eyes within shaped panels, shallow nose and projecting tongue which falls to a central raised vertical board pierced at intervals for fiber ties, the whole carved in low relief with scrolls, triangles about the border, painted pinkish-brown, black and white, double handle of wood and fiber on the reverse
84¼in. (214cm.) high
來源
William H. Davenport, collected in 1970
William McCarty-Cooper
William McCarty-Cooper