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Papua New Guinea Very beautiful lime gourd Traditionally mad…
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285
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Papua New Guinea Very beautiful lime gourd Traditionally mad…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
Papua New Guinea Very beautiful lime gourd Traditionally made by the Papuan tribes of the Trobiand Islands archipelago, using a calabash, painted with a stopper woven from plant fibres and decorated with a wild pig's tooth.
The gourd is in very good condition with its 46 cm long cord. H. 22 cm D. 15 cm Provenance: > Collected in situ by a French journalist in the early 1980s,
> Private collection Île-de-France
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