Lot n° 198
Estimation :
1000 - 1200
EUR
CEREMONIAL PARADE ADZE. Polished black stone adze fixed by a - Lot 198
CEREMONIAL PARADE ADZE. Polished black stone adze fixed by a rattan fibre ligature, feathers. It is decorated with an ancestor's mask painted with vegetable pigments. Sepik. New Guinea. 71x55. In French collection since the 1970s. Exhibitions: "Sacred objects, secret objects" Isère, 1993. "The face in all its states". Paris, 2010. Bibliography: Reproduced in the catalogue "Objets sacrés, objets secrets" 1993, page 18.
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