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164 - Kerewa, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea Agiba hook, wood, pi…
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Estimate €1,000 - €2,000
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Kerewa, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea Agiba hook, wood, pigment H. 72 cm - W. 36 cm Agiba, representations of important spirits associated with hunting and warfare, were clan possessions kept in the men’s ceremonial house (dubu daima). Often kept in pairs, they were used to hang human skulls – war trophies or ancestral relics – suspended by a reed cord. ‘The figure represented a spirit that had revealed itself to the carver in a dream. This spirit was certainly one of the imunu associated with the clan, and perhaps even that of a primordial ancestor” (Kjellgren, Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, p. 123).
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About the sale AFRICAN ART – TERRACOTTA FROM THE INDUS VALLEY – PRE-COLUMBIAN ART – OCEANIAN ART – HOPI CULTURE
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Auction time 06/24/2026 at 1:30 PM
Ref. : 3358 - 167
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