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Unknown — Spirit Board, Urama Island, Gulf of Papua, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea
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Spirit Board, Urama Island, Gulf of Papua, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea

This Spirit Board from Urama Island represents indigenous artistic and spiritual practices from Papua New Guinea's Gulf Province. The object serves both ceremonial and communicative purposes in its original cultural context.

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Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

May 11, 2021

Estimate: $3,000$5,000

Lot 27

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Unknown, Spirit Board, Urama Island, Gulf of Papua, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea

This Spirit Board from Urama Island represents indigenous artistic and spiritual practices from Papua New Guinea's Gulf Province. The object serves both ceremonial and communicative purposes in its original cultural context.

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

Related themes

Ritual, Symbolic, Traditional, Spiritual, Papua New Guinea, Carved Wood, Historical, Ethnographic, Ceremonial Object, Oceanic

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Collected by

Richard Caswell, Sebastián Naranjo, Jonah Handel, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Ethan Elkins, Alex Capecelatro, Mihail Lari, Cleveland Museum of Art