AN ABELAM HORNBILL LINTEL FIGURE

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
24 March 2010
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Oceanic Artefacts

Nelikum Village, Maprik District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
AN ABELAM HORNBILL LINTEL FIGURE

carved hardwood decorated with red, white and black pigments

68.0 cm height

Estimate: 
$1,500 - 2,000
Provenance

Collected in the field, late 1940s
Private collection, Melbourne