SENTANI CANE POUNDER

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Written By Helena Heukeshoven

Pounder

Dojo Village, North coast of Lake Sentani, Irian Jaya, Indonesian New Guinea, Melanesia

Hard wood (suan) and pigments with a fine patina of age and use

29 cm x 18 cm

Provenance: Collected in the field at Dojo villages by Jacques Hoogerbrugge between 1956 and 1963. Hoogerbrugge collection number 602. Jacques Hoogerbrugge collection (1923- 2014) Michel Thieme, Amsterdam (began selling Hoogerbrugge estate in 2015) Oscar Van Werdenburg, Holland, 2022/24

Publication: J. Hoogerbrugge 1967. Sentani Meer: Mythe en ornament / Lake Sentani: Myth and ornament. Kultuurpatronen: Bulletin Etnografisch Museum Delft 9, pp. 3-90. section 13, p. 79, ill. : ink drawing bottom left

Object Presented by:
Anthony J.P. Meyer
T.: + 33 (0) 6 80 10 80 22

Helena Heukeshoven
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