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| Auction Closes At: |
13:42:01 07/21/2025 |
| Time Remaining: |
5Day(s) 21Hour(s) 25min(s) 16sec(s) |
| Lot# & Name: |
372. Figural Suspension Hook |
| Estimate Price: |
$300-$600 |
| Current High Bid: |
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| Category: |
Ethnographic and Tribal Art
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| Sub Category: |
Oceania (South Seas and New Guinea)
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| Culture or Country: |
Korogo Village, Middle Sepik, PNG.
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| Period: |
Early to mid 20th century.
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| Size: |
27”H. (68.5cm). |
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| Description: |
Figural basket hook figure carved of medium density wood, in form of an anthropomorphic figure with convex head, large open triangular eyes, flared nostrils, open mouth, and relief ridged column starting below extended tongue, continuing along chest, and hollowed angular torso. The figure stands with small gripped feet on a short semicircular base with engraved face on front and back, and pointed hooks on side for hanging bags. Medium brown patinated wood with blackened layered peeling pigment. Losses to right eye opening, some surface wear, may have lost part of suspension loop on top of head.
Auction catalog wrote: Suspension hook in the form of a male figure standing with hands on hips. Parambi.
Food and personal possessions are suspended from the ceiling of the thatched house to protect them from rodents and insects. the objects are placed in string bags which are hung on the twin prongs, the hooks are thought to contain the spirits of ancestors
who protect the objects hung from them. |
| Provenance: |
Collection of Ilene and Jerry Liebowitz. Ex. Jerome Gould collection, LA., CA., 1990’s. #178; Geoff K. Gray Auctions, Rosebury, Australia, November 1976, Lot 396. Ex. Stanley Gordon Moriarty (1906-1978), Sydney. |
| Shipping Fee: |
| National: |
$65.00 |
| International: |
$149.00 |
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Figural Suspension Hook
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