made with several wooden planks attached to each other and caulked with traditional resin. The shell is covered with a coating of charcoal mixed with resin and then varnished with a vegetable sap. It is inlaid with a decoration of symbols made with mother-of-pearl cut from nautilus shells. The bow is decorated with an ancestral head.
Wood, various materials, old patina and marks of use
Malaita, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, late 19th-early 20th century
67 cm
Provenance: Maitre Aguttes sale, Neuilly-sur-Seine, April 2017, lot n°593 of the catalogue; former Rainer Weiner Boch collection, Hawaii
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