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A large jar used to preserve sago flour, it features the mythical figure of a humanized pig, its nose curved in the shape of a beak, a divinity linked to myths associating the discovery of sago pulp and the invention of this pottery by a woman. Fired clay with remnants of black and white pigments, forming an ancestral decoration on the torso and face. Iatmul population, Aibom village, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea (small age-related chips on neck, old patina and wear marks) Height 60 cm - Width 35 cm A certificate of authenticity from expert Serge Reynes will be given to the buyer. Bibliography: we can compare this jar with the one collected by Heino Heine, before 1910 and preserved in the Berlin Museum of Ethnography, ( inv. VI 30166 ), reproduced in the book Sepik, Skira edition, Musée du Quai Branly, page 136.
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A large jar used to preserve sago flour, it features the mythical figure of a humanized pig, its nose curved in the shape of a beak, a divinity linked to myths associating the discovery of sago pulp and the invention of this pottery by a woman. Fired clay with remnants of black and white pigments, forming an ancestral decoration on the torso and face. Iatmul population, Aibom village, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea (small age-related chips on neck, old patina and wear marks) Height 60 cm - Width 35 cm A certificate of authenticity from expert Serge Reynes will be given to the buyer. Bibliography: we can compare this jar with the one collected by Heino Heine, before 1910 and preserved in the Berlin Museum of Ethnography, ( inv. VI 30166 ), reproduced in the book Sepik, Skira edition, Musée du Quai Branly, page 136.
