YIPWON SPIRIT FIGURE, YIMAM PEOPLE, KOREWORI RIVER REGION, EAST SEPIK PROVINCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, c.1930
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ARTIST UNKNOWN (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)
YIPWON SPIRIT FIGURE, YIMAM PEOPLE, KOREWORI RIVER REGION, EAST SEPIK PROVINCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, c.1930
321.0 cm height
Estimate:
$14,000 – 18,000
Sold for $19,520 (inc. BP) in Auction 52 - 29 November 2017, Melbourne
Provenance
Collected by a German missionary working in Papua New Guinea c.1930
J. Ainger, Melbourne, 1985
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above