YAMBUN, UPPER SEPIK RIVER
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TWO NEW GUINEA POTTERY HEADS
Yambun, Upper Sepik River
Each with pierced circular eyes, crescent mouth and flanged beard, one modelled with long nose, the long neck with incised ornament, the other with curved projection to the top of the head, white and red pigments
25cm. and 23cm. high (2)
Yambun, Upper Sepik River
Each with pierced circular eyes, crescent mouth and flanged beard, one modelled with long nose, the long neck with incised ornament, the other with curved projection to the top of the head, white and red pigments
25cm. and 23cm. high (2)
Provenance
Maurice Bonnefoy, Paris
Exhibited
Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchâtel, art océanien, 1970 for the first
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