Ceremonial Head, Fly River Delta, Papua New Guinea
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$51.78
Wabuda Mogoru Ceremonial Head Kawai Island, Fly River Delta, Papua New Guinea H: 15.3” / 39cm Collected in situ by George Craig in 1960s Richard Aldridge, Australia Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes Estates Illustrated: Michael Hamson, “Red Eye of the Sun: The Art of the Papuan Gulf” (2010), p. 84–85, no. 28 A part of elaborate ritual displays, these wooden heads were presented during initiation ceremonies and ancestral veneration. $2800
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