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Spirit board, Titi Ebihai or Kaiamunu, 18th–19th century
Wood, pigment, repainted with trade store paint on the maroon ovals below the figure
160 x 40 x 18 cm (63 x 15 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.139

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by Thomas Schultze-Westrum in 1966." (Catalog #479, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 165.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The dramatic impression of this board is heightened by its unusual curved form. A board with similar motifs in the British Museum was collected on the Cook Daniels Expedition in 1905 (Newton, 1961, fig. 119). There is another in the Field Museum, Chicago, which, like the British Museum piece, has the ovals carved as openwork above and below the figure (Guiart, 1963, fig. 110)." (Catalog #479, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 165.)

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