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Lintel, Tikit, 20th century
Wood, pigment
340.4 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm (134 x 12.5 x 12 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.20

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Jacques Blankaert Collection, Brussels." (Catalog #294, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 131.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The terminal hornbill head and one figure are missing from one end. Originally, there would have been three of these dunyan/tagwanyan figures, separated by carved heads, with hornbill heads between them. The hornbill, pal, is associated with the origin of yams and, in this case, may also be a clan totem. Beneath, there are two carvings of snakes, probably the python, doah. Anthony Forge (1966: 30) states that the bornbill may be so important in Abelam art because its beak has a phallic shape. See Koch, 1968, nos. 27 and 28 for a lintel in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, collected in Maprik village in 1964. These lintel ornaments were placed below the painted palm spathe facade, bai, of the spirit house, and above a plaited part used for the display of large shell rings during the inauguration of the house. See pl. 288." (Catalog #294, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 131.)

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