Painted Bark, Kwoma Ethnic Group, Papua New Guinea, Primitive Arts, Oceanic Art, Tribal Art

Painted bark collected in the Washkuk hills area in Papua New Guinea. These paintings on sago palm bark decorate the internal surfaces of the roofs as well as the pediments of the ceremonial houses and represent in an abstract or figurative way the ancestors or the beliefs of the clans. Here the representation of taro leaves. Assembled to each other, they line the ceilings or pediments of these large prestigious huts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents in its permanent collection the complete reconstruction of a hut roof decorated with this type of painted bark... Piece of sago palm bark and natural pigments. Traces of use, in particular of holes used to bind them together. Possibility of a stand on request. Free Shipping.