O-35 THREE ENGRAVED COCONUT BOWLS
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O-35 THREE ENGRAVED COCONUT BOWLS
Middle Sepik Sawos region, Papua new Guinea
All these coconuts were collected on some of my first visits to PNG in the 1970s. All were quite old at the time and obviously carved by a good carver from an older generation. The carved designs are precisely engraved, all with wonderful flowing lines.
a) Depicting wind and flowing water in the motif; the basis of life.
b) Two large ancestral faces dominate this coconut, and many other Sepik motifs.
c) Like a above this coconut depicts the movement of wind and water, that both breathe life into the world.
a) $400 b) $400 c) $400
a) 15 diam b) 14.5 diam c) 15.5 diam
