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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  The Todd Barlin Collection of Fine Oceanic & Asian Arts
• Sale Date:
  08 May 2016 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  230
• Lot Description:
  Four Woven Paddle Sleeves, Two Paddles & an old Bow & Arrows set from the Brazza River Area, Asmat, West Papua, [9]
  the sleaves are elaborately decorated with Croix Seeds and Cockatoo Feathers. These were used for decorating their long canoe paddles for the ceremony of launching newly made canoes. There is significance and ceremony attached to making canoes and when they are ready they must have all the correct decorations to appease the ancestors. Cockatoos are a headhunting symbol in Asmat Art
  120 cm to 140 cm
• Provenance:
  The bow and arrows were obtained by me in 1985 by trade for a steel knife in a village of Butukatnau on the Upper Kolof River (a tributary of the Brazza River) steel was in high demand as the people were still using stone tools. (See field photo)." Todd Barlin / Todd Barlin Collection.
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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