£500
African & Oceanic Art, Antiquities and Natural History | 639
Auction: 5 May 2021 at 12:00 BST
palmwood, bone, pigment and fibre binding, both of typical long form, the head with barbs formed from the wing bones of the flying fox fixed with grass fibre, with smaller barbs perpendicular to the shaft below, further held in place by fibre basketwork dyed in red and yellow, a kagoi ancestor figure carved above a closely packed bulb of vegetal fibre (2)
Provenance:
Private collection, Scotland