PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
113

A CEREMONIAL DANCE SHIELD

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

carved and incised wood with traces of pigment

68.5 x 25.5 cm

Estimate: 
$500 – 800
Sold for $2,074 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, New South Wales, acquired during a visit to the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea in 1969