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Carved Kanak Bamboo Stick

New Caledonia

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Author

By (artist) Inconnu

Description

Long bamboo cane engraved on all sides with scenes with several figures, colonist and indigeous, in different situations; animals; and various tools and weapons. The accurate representations of rituals boxes ornamented with arows are particularly interesting.

Exceptional and finely executed ornamentation. Probably from the second half of the 19th century.

Notice Artkhade

Creation datesd [circa 19-20e]
Physical descriptionHaut : 111 cm (43 3/4 in.) - Bambou pyrogravé
Place of origin
Size111,00 cm
Reference4521000
Breton Auction, 2003Lot 6106
Keywords,
CategoriesMelanesian Art, Oceanian, Ppolynesian, Melanesian Art
Permanent linkhttps://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100899570
Place of origin