MIDDLE SEPIK RIVER

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A NEW GUINEA LARGE PALM SPATHE SKULL RACK
Middle Sepik River
Of long oval form, the thirteen palm spathe panels decorated with three painted masks amid scroll motifs in reddish-brown and black on a white ground, the whole lashed to a bamboo base and with twenty-one spikes above for the ancestral skulls
440cm. long

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Lot Essay

Cf. a more elaborate skull rack similarly treated collected on the Sepik-Expedition of 1912/13 in Yentschemangua and now in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Kelm, H., Kunst von Sepik I, Berlin, 1966, no.237

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