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ULUTE ORNAMENT OR PAPAFITA, Malaita Island, Solomon Islands, - Lot 9

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Result : 650EUR
ULUTE ORNAMENT OR PAPAFITA, Malaita Island, Solomon Islands, - Lot 9
ULUTE ORNAMENT OR PAPAFITA, Malaita Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia Clam shell (tridacna gigas), pigments. H. 7 cm Decorated with two frigate birds, incised into the shell of a stoup and then blackened, a motif typical of Solomon Islands iconography. Sober porthole at the top. PROVENANCE: Christie's Paris sale, December 11, 2007, lot 373; former Joe Gerena collection, New York; inherited by descent. See L'Eclat des ombres - L'art en noir et blanc des îles Salomon, Editions Somogy, Paris, 2014, p. 195 for a related example.
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