Lot #204 - Offering Bowl, Star Harbour Area, Makira Island, The Solomon Islands, c.1950s
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Auction House:Theodore Bruce
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Sale Name:The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic Art - Part III
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Sale Date:22 Sep 2019 ~ 4pm (AEST)
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Lot #:204
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Lot Description:Offering Bowl, Star Harbour Area, Makira Island, The Solomon Islands, c.1950s
Finely carved from a single piece of wood and decorated with many nautilus shell inlays, offering bowls like this were kept in the sacred canoe house where the bones of ancestors were kept, and were used to receive offerings of food & tobacco.
L 67 cm -
Estimate:A$600 - 800
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Realised Price:
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Category:Tribal
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