A FINE TAMI BOWL

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
6 October 2010
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Artefacts (Oceanic)

Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
A FINE TAMI BOWL

1940s carved and incised hardwood with traces of pigment, with carved decorated handles in the form of the tail and head of a bird devouring a fish, the base decorated with a design of a human head adorned with a decorative headdress

64.0 cm length

Estimate: 
$1,200-1,600
Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne