Ceremonial food dish
Murik Lake area - Sepik river... Lot 9
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Ceremonial food dish
Murik Lake area - Sepik river estuary - Papua New Guinea
New Guinea
Late 19th - early 20th century
Dimensions: 28 x 18 cm
Carved wood
Provenance
Didier Zanette private collection
French private collection
Collected in the Lac Murik region at the mouth of the Sepik River by Didier Zanette, this rare dish, with its small size and head-shaped protuberance, represents a turtle in the round, the clan's mythological animal. The quality of the wood, black and dry, confirms its advanced age.
The double representation of the animal, both formal and graphic but always schematically abstract, reinforces its symbolic importance, affirms technical know-how and testifies to the ingenuity of the people of the Sépik River.
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