Lot n° 307
Estimation :
800 - 1200
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 900EUR
*GOBAELA - Lot 307
*GOBAELA
LOUISIADES ARCHIPELAGO, MASSIM REGION, PNG, MELANESIA.
Wood, blue and orange pigments, lime, shell and red plastic.
On the back is engraved the inscription "Mumuga" and the date "1953".
69 x 50 x 2 cm max.
19th or early 20th century.
Provenance.
- Collected in the field by Harry Beran and Anthony JP Meyer between
1987 and 1990.
Large wooden coin or gobaelo ending in a broad crescent moon base that rises to reveal two stylized bird heads. On either side of the object, between the top of the handle and the base of the crescent, two zoomorphic figures appear in profile. The upper edges of the object are pierced; they originally housed sulava-type disks of red spondyla (shellfish).
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