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* IATMUL OR ABELAM, MIDDLE SEPIK, PAPUA NEW GUINEA,
Pair of …
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34
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* IATMUL OR ABELAM, MIDDLE SEPIK, PAPUA NEW GUINEA,
Pair of …
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
* IATMUL OR ABELAM, MIDDLE SEPIK, PAPUA NEW GUINEA,
Pair of wooden bethel nut cracking mallets with patina and wear from long domestic use. Each is decorated with a beautiful and expressive crocodile head carved at the end of the handle. Plinths.
L. 39 cm and 34 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Dr Theodore Allen Heinrich, Director of the Royal Ontario Museum (1956 to 1963).
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