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THBLower Sepik River Flute Mask
Lot 54
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Bidsquare : Louis Pierre Ledoux’s Papua New Guinea Collection
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Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people. Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people. Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
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Carved Wooden Mask (Flute Mask) fully covered in red pigment, stylized face with typical Murik long, beak-like nose
Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Wood, Pigment
Dimensions: H 15 1/2" / 39 cm x W 5"/ 12.5 cm
Technique: Carved
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux CollectionSimilar items:
American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology, 80/8905
https://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/common/image_dup.cfm?catno=80%2E0%2F%208905 - Buyer's Premium
