tsambun Wood, cowrie shells height 24 5/8in (62.5cm) Provenance Gustav Umlauff, Hamburg, 1930s Julius August Konietzko, Hamburg Guy Loudmer, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 7-9 December 1991, Lot 168 Michel Gaud Collection, Saint Tropez Eduardo Uhart, Santiago, Chile and Paris Christine Valluet, Paris Joris Visser, Brussels Antonio Onrubia Collection, Barcelona Published Arts d'Afrique Noire , Winter 2003, no. 128, p. 29 Onrubia, Antonio, La Diversidad de las Formas , Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., Barcelona, 2016, fig. 261 Depicting the waken ancestral figure, hook like these "were used to hang carrying bags and baskets with food away from rats. Bunches of beetle nuts, clothes, tools, drums, and flutes were also suspended. Spirits or mythical beings associated with specific clans were portrayed. Known by name, the hooks were given offerings of food and were expected to have a positive influence on the food supply." (Friede, John, New Guinea Art - Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede , Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2015, p. 124)
tsambun Wood, cowrie shells height 24 5/8in (62.5cm) Provenance Gustav Umlauff, Hamburg, 1930s Julius August Konietzko, Hamburg Guy Loudmer, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 7-9 December 1991, Lot 168 Michel Gaud Collection, Saint Tropez Eduardo Uhart, Santiago, Chile and Paris Christine Valluet, Paris Joris Visser, Brussels Antonio Onrubia Collection, Barcelona Published Arts d'Afrique Noire , Winter 2003, no. 128, p. 29 Onrubia, Antonio, La Diversidad de las Formas , Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., Barcelona, 2016, fig. 261 Depicting the waken ancestral figure, hook like these "were used to hang carrying bags and baskets with food away from rats. Bunches of beetle nuts, clothes, tools, drums, and flutes were also suspended. Spirits or mythical beings associated with specific clans were portrayed. Known by name, the hooks were given offerings of food and were expected to have a positive influence on the food supply." (Friede, John, New Guinea Art - Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede , Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2015, p. 124)
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