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Magic bundle, 20th century
Bush string bag with seed tassels and bone and nut decorations, containing polychrome bark magic boards and fetish objects
45 x 14 x 8 cm (17 11/16 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.107

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The bark boards, used in war magic, were chewed and than spat in divination ceremonies. Carl Schuster stated that the motifs on these boards were both a stylized human figure and a meander representing genealogical descent (Carpenter, 1986, reproduced in Res 6, fall 1966: 32, 45). Douglas Newton collected many examples of magic boards among the Bitara and Sanio (Saniyo)-Hiowe people of the middle April River. They will be in the Douglas Newton Collection at the de Young Museum." (Catalog #348, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 140.) 1983 - Carpenter, 1983: 32.

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