"Double Painted Bark, Tribal Art, Oceanic Art, Painting, Oceania, Papua New Guinea"
Particularly aesthetic double painted bark, collected in the Kwoma region in Papua New Guinea. These paintings on sago palm bark decorate the internal faces of roofs as well as the pediments of ceremonial houses and represent in an abstract or figurative manner the ancestors or beliefs of the clans. Assembled together, they line the ceilings of these large prestigious boxes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents in its permanent collection the complete reconstruction of a hut roof decorated with painted bark of this type... Piece of sago palm bark and natural pigments. Traces of use. Approx. 46 x 47 cm / €380 shipping costs included.