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Large mask from the Sepik, Papua New Guinea, long narrow face mask with smiling mouth and below the nose with beak-like, free-ending structure, carved wood and with carved and painted gray-pink ornaments, mouth, nostrils, eyebrows and center of the forehead with bead of resin or wax, densely studded with small cowrie snails, eyes inlaid with cowrie, nose and forehead patch decorated with boar tusks, l 104 cm, shrinkage cracks, from an old private collection, collection period between 1950 and 1970. 4428-070

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Large mask from the Sepik, Papua New Guinea, long narrow face mask with smiling mouth and below the nose with beak-like, free-ending structure, carved wood and with carved and painted gray-pink ornaments, mouth, nostrils, eyebrows and center of the forehead with bead of resin or wax, densely studded with small cowrie snails, eyes inlaid with cowrie, nose and forehead patch decorated with boar tusks, l 104 cm, shrinkage cracks, from an old private collection, collection period between 1950 and 1970. 4428-070

Estimate 90 EUR
Starting price 90 EUR

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For sale on Friday 12 Jul : 10:00 (CEST)
saarbrucken, Germany
Auktionshaus Saarbrücken
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