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Zoomorphic Head Rest

Awa people, Eastern Highlands region, Papua New Guinea

Carved wood

8⅞” x 23½” (22.54 x 59.69)

Price: $950

 
 

Head rests such as this example were fashioned from a single section of a tree, “the legs being branches of the main body” (Ethnic Art Galleries 1967: 21, fig. 54).

REFERENCES

Ethnic Art Galleries. Art of New Guinea: Sepik, Maprik and Highlands; an exhibition

arranged by the Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, UCLA

and the Ethnic Arts Council. Los Angeles: University of California, 1967.

 
 
 
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