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A COLLECTION OF FOUR OUTSTANDING EASTERN HIGHLAND

Currency:AUD Category:Antiques Start Price:380.00 AUD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 AUD
A COLLECTION OF FOUR OUTSTANDING EASTERN HIGHLAND
c.1950s, in classic composite form with bamboo shafts polychrome and cane fibre bound points, decorated with polychrome pigments, PNG, 97-108cm (4)<BR><BR><b>Provenance</b>: Ex-collection Doreen Marks Note: From 1956 Dorren Marks was commissioned by the Summer Institute of Linguistics as a Bible translator and lived amongst the Kosena and Awiyanna societies in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. During this time she acquired an interesting collection of artefacts from these societies.