Object Description
An Iatmul Orator’s Stool – Papua New Guinea. First half 20th Century
The curved back with carved stylised decoration and with a standing female figure with inset cowrie shell eyes and previously with resin/mud to the top of the head, her right arm inscribed MANIAMA, with an oval seat having two ancestor mask supports to a domed base, with earth and white pigments, 86cm high. Provenance Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection Christie’s, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 150
Dimensions:
Height 86cm
Width 46cm
Depth 37cm