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    Carved Kanak Bamboo Stick

    New Caledonia

    Various Objects

    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://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100899570
    Place of origin