YIPWON SPIRIT FIGURE, YIMAM PEOPLE, KOREWORI RIVER REGION, EAST SEPIK PROVINCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, c.1930

Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art
Melbourne
29 November 2017
142

ARTIST UNKNOWN (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)

YIPWON SPIRIT FIGURE, YIMAM PEOPLE, KOREWORI RIVER REGION, EAST SEPIK PROVINCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, c.1930

321.0 cm height

Estimate: 
$14,000 – 18,000
Sold for $19,520 (inc. BP) in Auction 52 - 29 November 2017, Melbourne
Provenance

Collected by a German missionary working in Papua New Guinea c.1930
J. Ainger, Melbourne, 1985
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above