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Height: 6 ⅜ in (16.2 cm) — Figure of a Supernatural Being, Nendö (Santa Cruz), Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Height: 6 ⅜ in (16.2 cm)

Figure of a Supernatural Being, Nendö (Santa Cruz), Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands

A carved wooden figure representing a supernatural being from the Nendö people of the Solomon Islands. The sculpture embodies traditional Pacific Island spiritual and aesthetic traditions.

🔨 Auction Lot

Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

November 15, 2022

Estimate: $15,000$25,000

Lot 87

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Height: 6 ⅜ in (16.2 cm), Figure of a Supernatural Being, Nendö (Santa Cruz), Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands

A carved wooden figure representing a supernatural being from the Nendö people of the Solomon Islands. The sculpture embodies traditional Pacific Island spiritual and aesthetic traditions.

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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Nendö, Oceanic Art, Solomon Islands, Wooden Sculpture, Spiritual Being, Ethnographic, Indigenous, Supernatural