Height 70in (178cm) Provenance John Pasquarelli, collected in Ablatak, New Guinea in 1962 Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 2004, Lot 8 Canadian Private Collection Born in 1937 in Australia, Pasquarelli became a cadet patrol officer in Papua New Guinea in 1961. He resigned in 1962 to become a crocodile marksman and field collector. He donated many works to the Papua New Guinea Museum and others found their way into other institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Basel Museum of Culture. The type of head on this figure is more typically seen on yina figures with large heads and a single columnar support in the back (Cf. Newton, Douglas, Crocodile and Cassowary, The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1971, fig. 148)
Height 70in (178cm) Provenance John Pasquarelli, collected in Ablatak, New Guinea in 1962 Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 2004, Lot 8 Canadian Private Collection Born in 1937 in Australia, Pasquarelli became a cadet patrol officer in Papua New Guinea in 1961. He resigned in 1962 to become a crocodile marksman and field collector. He donated many works to the Papua New Guinea Museum and others found their way into other institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Basel Museum of Culture. The type of head on this figure is more typically seen on yina figures with large heads and a single columnar support in the back (Cf. Newton, Douglas, Crocodile and Cassowary, The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1971, fig. 148)
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