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Lot 179 Dα

CANOE PROW CARVED AS A PIG

Auction 1167 - overview Brussels
02.09.2021, 14:00 - Art of Africa, The Pacific and The Americas
Estimate: 7.000 € - 10.000 €

CANOE PROW CARVED AS A PIG
Atchin Island, Vanuatu

87 cm. long

Provenance

Collected on the voyage of La Korrigane, 1935
Christie’s, Amsterdam, 12 September 2002, lot 33

The prow was purchased on Atchin Island in June 1935 for ten shillings. Atchin Island lies off the north coast of Malekula just south of Vao, the island with which such prows are normally associated.

Exhibitions

Paris, Musée de l’Homme, 1938