height 81in (206cm) Provenance Collected by Countess Ingebourg de Beausacq while living in Papua New Guinea from 1957 to 1958 Wayne Heathcote Oceanic Art, London and New York Alan Steele Tribal Fine Art, New York Leon Meizlik Collection, Westchester, New York Carved in light wood with two rows of emmaki mbi, the swirling water and navel motifs, bokoper down the center and the lizard effigy carved at the top; lime red ochre and black charcoal pigments.
height 81in (206cm) Provenance Collected by Countess Ingebourg de Beausacq while living in Papua New Guinea from 1957 to 1958 Wayne Heathcote Oceanic Art, London and New York Alan Steele Tribal Fine Art, New York Leon Meizlik Collection, Westchester, New York Carved in light wood with two rows of emmaki mbi, the swirling water and navel motifs, bokoper down the center and the lizard effigy carved at the top; lime red ochre and black charcoal pigments.
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