SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
carved in hardwood, cane binding
LENGTH: 181.5CM
Provenance:
Collected by Major A.L. Roberts who was head of administration in New Britain after WW1; thence by descent Private collection
Cf. Heinz Kelm, Kunst Vom Sepik, vol. 3, Berlin: Museum Fur Volkerkunde, 1968, figs.440-442, for similar examples collected during the Sepik River Expedition of 1912-1913