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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Timed Online Auction | The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic and Asian Art | Day I
• Sale Date:
  08 Aug 2022 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  9143
• Lot Description:
  A Fine Old Food Bowl, Lower Sepik River Area, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Early 20th Century
  Together with a Fine Old Tapa Cloth Beater, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, 19th - Early 20th Century. This very old and encrusted bowl was the sort of small gems of artworks old men might bring to you when in a village. The animal on the finial is a stylised dog.
  H 41 cm [Bowl], 42.5 cm [Tapa Beater]
• Provenance:
  (Tapa Beater) Peter Hallinan Collection (1938-2015) Hallinan No H-1051; The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic Art
• Notes:
  The making of Bark Cloth for ceremonial ornaments has a lot of work pounding the tree bark thin enough to be usable, then a tapa beater with incised designs is used to give it a pattern or designs on the bark cloth as with this example were several different design elements were possible due to the different carved profiles on this elegant old tapa beater.
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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